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By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine

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Synopsis

The Taming of the Shrew begins with an “induction” in which a nobleman plays a trick on a beggar, Christopher Sly, treating Sly as if he is a nobleman who has lost his memory. A play is staged for Sly—the play that we know as The Taming of the Shrew.

In the play, set in Padua, Lucentio and other suitors pursue Bianca, but are told by her father, Baptista, that her bad-tempered older sister, Katherine, must marry first. They encourage Petruchio, who has come to Padua to find a wealthy wife, to court Katherine and free Bianca to marry.

Petruchio negotiates marriage terms with Baptista, then has a stormy meeting with Katherine, after which he assures Baptista that the two have agreed to marry. Petruchio arrives late to their wedding dressed in strange clothes; he behaves rudely and carries Katherine away before the wedding dinner. At his home, he embarks on a plan to “tame” Katherine as one would tame a wild hawk. Starved and kept without sleep, Katherine eventually agrees with everything Petruchio says, however absurd. He takes her back to Padua, where they attend Bianca’s wedding. There Katherine proves more obedient to her husband than the other wives, whom she chastises before she and Petruchio go off to consummate their marriage.

LORDFTLN 0016Huntsman, I charge thee tender well my hounds.FTLN 0017Breathe Merriman (the poor cur is embossed)FTLN 0018And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.FTLN 0019Saw’st thou not, boy, how Silver made it goodFTLN 002020At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault?FTLN 0021I would not lose the dog for twenty pound!

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FIRST HUNTSMANFTLN 0022Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord.FTLN 0023He cried upon it at the merest loss,FTLN 0024And twice today picked out the dullest scent.FTLN 002525Trust me, I take him for the better dog.LORDFTLN 0026Thou art a fool. If Echo were as fleet,FTLN 0027I would esteem him worth a dozen such.FTLN 0028But sup them well, and look unto them all.FTLN 0029Tomorrow I intend to hunt again.FIRST HUNTSMANFTLN 003030I will, my lord.First Huntsman exits.LORD, noticing SlyFTLN 0031What’s here? One dead, or drunk? See doth heFTLN 0032breathe.SECOND HUNTSMANFTLN 0033He breathes, my lord. Were he not warmed with ale,FTLN 0034This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.LORDFTLN 003535O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies!FTLN 0036Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!FTLN 0037Sirs, I will practice on this drunken man.FTLN 0038What think you, if he were conveyed to bed,FTLN 0039Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon hisFTLN 004040fingers,FTLN 0041A most delicious banquet by his bed,FTLN 0042And brave attendants near him when he wakes,FTLN 0043Would not the beggar then forget himself?THIRD HUNTSMANFTLN 0044Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.SECOND HUNTSMANFTLN 004545It would seem strange unto him when he waked.LORDFTLN 0046Even as a flatt’ring dream or worthless fancy.FTLN 0047Then take him up, and manage well the jest.

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FTLN 0048Carry him gently to my fairest chamber,FTLN 0049And hang it round with all my wanton pictures;FTLN 005050Balm his foul head in warm distillèd waters,FTLN 0051And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet;FTLN 0052Procure me music ready when he wakesFTLN 0053To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound.FTLN 0054And if he chance to speak, be ready straightFTLN 005555And, with a low, submissive reverence,FTLN 0056Say “What is it your Honor will command?”FTLN 0057Let one attend him with a silver basinFTLN 0058Full of rosewater and bestrewed with flowers,FTLN 0059Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,FTLN 006060And say “Will ’t please your Lordship cool yourFTLN 0061hands?”FTLN 0062Someone be ready with a costly suit,FTLN 0063And ask him what apparel he will wear.FTLN 0064Another tell him of his hounds and horse,FTLN 006565And that his lady mourns at his disease.FTLN 0066Persuade him that he hath been lunatic,FTLN 0067And when he says he is, say that he dreams,FTLN 0068For he is nothing but a mighty lord.FTLN 0069This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs.FTLN 007070It will be pastime passing excellentFTLN 0071If it be husbanded with modesty.THIRD HUNTSMANFTLN 0072My lord, I warrant you we will play our partFTLN 0073As he shall think by our true diligenceFTLN 0074He is no less than what we say he is.LORDFTLN 007575Take him up gently, and to bed with him,FTLN 0076And each one to his office when he wakes.Sly is carried out.Sound trumpets within.FTLN 0077Sirrah, go see what trumpet ’tis that sounds.Servingman exits.

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FTLN 0078Belike some noble gentleman that meansFTLN 0079(Traveling some journey) to repose him here.

FTLN 0084Now, fellows, you are welcome.PLAYERSFTLN 008585We thank your Honor.LORDFTLN 0086Do you intend to stay with me tonight?FIRSTPLAYERFTLN 0087So please your Lordship to accept our duty.LORDFTLN 0088With all my heart. This fellow I rememberFTLN 0089Since once he played a farmer’s eldest son.—FTLN 009090’Twas where you wooed the gentlewoman so well.FTLN 0091I have forgot your name, but sure that partFTLN 0092Was aptly fitted and naturally performed.SECONDPLAYERFTLN 0093I think ’twas Soto that your Honor means.LORDFTLN 0094’Tis very true. Thou didst it excellent.FTLN 009595Well, you are come to me in happy time,FTLN 0096The rather for I have some sport in handFTLN 0097Wherein your cunning can assist me much.FTLN 0098There is a lord will hear you play tonight;FTLN 0099But I am doubtful of your modesties,FTLN 0100100Lest, over-eying of his odd behaviorFTLN 0101(For yet his Honor never heard a play),FTLN 0102You break into some merry passion,FTLN 0103And so offend him. For I tell you, sirs,FTLN 0104If you should smile, he grows impatient.

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FIRSTPLAYERFTLN 0105105Fear not, my lord, we can contain ourselvesFTLN 0106Were he the veriest antic in the world.LORD, to a ServingmanFTLN 0107Go, sirrah, take them to the butteryFTLN 0108And give them friendly welcome every one.FTLN 0109Let them want nothing that my house affords.One exits with the Players.FTLN 0110110Sirrah, go you to Bartholomew, my page,FTLN 0111And see him dressed in all suits like a lady.FTLN 0112That done, conduct him to the drunkard’s chamber,FTLN 0113And call him “Madam,” do him obeisance.FTLN 0114Tell him from me, as he will win my love,FTLN 0115115He bear himself with honorable action,FTLN 0116Such as he hath observed in noble ladiesFTLN 0117Unto their lords, by them accomplishèd.FTLN 0118Such duty to the drunkard let him doFTLN 0119With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,FTLN 0120120And say “What is ’t your Honor will command,FTLN 0121Wherein your lady and your humble wifeFTLN 0122May show her duty and make known her love?”FTLN 0123And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,FTLN 0124And with declining head into his bosom,FTLN 0125125Bid him shed tears, as being overjoyedFTLN 0126To see her noble lord restored to health,FTLN 0127Who, for this seven years, hath esteemed himFTLN 0128No better than a poor and loathsome beggar.FTLN 0129And if the boy have not a woman’s giftFTLN 0130130To rain a shower of commanded tears,FTLN 0131An onion will do well for such a shift,FTLN 0132Which (in a napkin being close conveyed)FTLN 0133Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.FTLN 0134See this dispatched with all the haste thou canst.FTLN 0135135Anon I’ll give thee more instructions.A Servingman exits.FTLN 0136I know the boy will well usurp the grace,

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FTLN 0137Voice, gait, and action of a gentlewoman.FTLN 0138I long to hear him call the drunkard “husband”!FTLN 0139And how my men will stay themselves fromFTLN 0140140laughterFTLN 0141When they do homage to this simple peasant,FTLN 0142I’ll in to counsel them. Haply my presenceFTLN 0143May well abate the over-merry spleenFTLN 0144Which otherwise would grow into extremes.They exit.

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Enter aloft Christopher Sly, the drunkard, withAttendants, some with apparel, basin and ewer, andother appurtenances, and Lord dressed as an Attendant.

SLYFTLN 0145For God’s sake, a pot of small ale.FIRST SERVINGMANFTLN 0146Will ’t please your Lord drink a cup of sack?SECOND SERVINGMANFTLN 0147Will ’t please your Honor taste of these conserves?THIRD SERVINGMANFTLN 0148What raiment will your Honor wear today?SLYFTLN 01495I am Christophero Sly! Call not me “Honor” norFTLN 0150“Lordship.” I ne’er drank sack in my life. An if youFTLN 0151give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef.FTLN 0152Ne’er ask me what raiment I’ll wear, for I have noFTLN 0153more doublets than backs, no more stockings thanFTLN 015410legs, nor no more shoes than feet, nay sometimeFTLN 0155more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes lookFTLN 0156through the over-leather.LORD, as AttendantFTLN 0157Heaven cease this idle humor in your Honor!FTLN 0158O, that a mighty man of such descent,FTLN 015915Of such possessions, and so high esteemFTLN 0160Should be infusèd with so foul a spirit!

SECOND SERVINGMANFTLN 0193Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straightFTLN 019450Adonis painted by a running brook,FTLN 0195And Cytherea all in sedges hid,FTLN 0196Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,FTLN 0197Even as the waving sedges play with wind.LORD, as AttendantFTLN 0198We’ll show thee Io as she was a maidFTLN 019955And how she was beguilèd and surprised,FTLN 0200As lively painted as the deed was done.THIRD SERVINGMANFTLN 0201Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,FTLN 0202Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,FTLN 0203And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,FTLN 020460So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.LORD, as AttendantFTLN 0205Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord;FTLN 0206Thou hast a lady far more beautifulFTLN 0207Than any woman in this waning age.FIRST SERVINGMANFTLN 0208And till the tears that she hath shed for theeFTLN 020965Like envious floods o’errun her lovely face,FTLN 0210She was the fairest creature in the world—FTLN 0211And yet she is inferior to none.SLYFTLN 0212Am I a lord, and have I such a lady?FTLN 0213Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now?FTLN 021470I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak,FTLN 0215I smell sweet savors, and I feel soft things.FTLN 0216Upon my life, I am a lord indeedFTLN 0217And not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly.FTLN 0218Well, bring our lady hither to our sight,FTLN 021975And once again a pot o’ the smallest ale.SECOND SERVINGMANFTLN 0220Will ’t please your Mightiness to wash your hands?FTLN 0221O, how we joy to see your wit restored!

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FTLN 0222O, that once more you knew but what you are!FTLN 0223These fifteen years you have been in a dream,FTLN 022480Or, when you waked, so waked as if you slept.SLYFTLN 0225These fifteen years! By my fay, a goodly nap.FTLN 0226But did I never speak of all that time?FIRST SERVINGMANFTLN 0227Oh, yes, my lord, but very idle words.FTLN 0228For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,FTLN 022985Yet would you say you were beaten out of door,FTLN 0230And rail upon the hostess of the house,FTLN 0231And say you would present her at the leetFTLN 0232Because she brought stone jugs and no sealedFTLN 0233quarts.FTLN 023490Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.SLYFTLN 0235Ay, the woman’s maid of the house.THIRD SERVINGMANFTLN 0236Why, sir, you know no house, nor no such maid,FTLN 0237Nor no such men as you have reckoned up,FTLN 0238As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greete,FTLN 023995And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell,FTLN 0240And twenty more such names and men as these,FTLN 0241Which never were, nor no man ever saw.SLYFTLN 0242Now, Lord be thanked for my good amends!ALLFTLN 0243Amen.SLYFTLN 0244100I thank thee. Thou shalt not lose by it.

Enter Page as Lady, with Attendants.

PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0245How fares my noble lord?SLYFTLN 0246Marry, I fare well, for here is cheer enough.FTLN 0247Where is my wife?PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0248Here, noble lord. What is thy will with her?SLYFTLN 0249105Are you my wife, and will not call me “husband”?FTLN 0250My men should call me “lord.” I am your goodman.

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PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0251My husband and my lord, my lord and husband,FTLN 0252I am your wife in all obedience.SLYFTLN 0253I know it well.—What must I call her?LORD, as AttendantFTLN 0254110“Madam.”SLYFTLN 0255“Alice Madam,” or “Joan Madam”?LORDFTLN 0256“Madam,” and nothing else. So lords call ladies.SLYFTLN 0257Madam wife, they say that I have dreamedFTLN 0258And slept above some fifteen year or more.PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0259115Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,FTLN 0260Being all this time abandoned from your bed.SLYFTLN 0261’Tis much.—Servants, leave me and her alone.—FTLN 0262Madam, undress you, and come now to bed.PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0263Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of youFTLN 0264120To pardon me yet for a night or two;FTLN 0265Or if not so, until the sun be set.FTLN 0266For your physicians have expressly charged,FTLN 0267In peril to incur your former malady,FTLN 0268That I should yet absent me from your bed.FTLN 0269125I hope this reason stands for my excuse.SLYFTLN 0270Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long; butFTLN 0271I would be loath to fall into my dreams again. I willFTLN 0272therefore tarry in despite of the flesh and theFTLN 0273blood.

FTLN 0277Seeing too much sadness hath congealed yourFTLN 0278blood,FTLN 0279135And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.FTLN 0280Therefore they thought it good you hear a playFTLN 0281And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,FTLN 0282Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.SLYFTLN 0283Marry, I will. Let them play it.Messenger exits.FTLN 0284140Is not a comonty a Christmas gambold or a tumblingFTLN 0285trick?PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0286No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.SLYFTLN 0287What, household stuff?PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0288It is a kind of history.SLYFTLN 0289145Well, we’ll see ’t. Come, madam wife, sit by myFTLN 0290side, and let the world slip. We shall ne’er beFTLN 0291younger.They sit.

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Flourish. Enter Lucentio and his man Tranio.

LUCENTIOFTLN 0292Tranio, since for the great desire I hadFTLN 0293To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,FTLN 0294I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,FTLN 0295The pleasant garden of great Italy,FTLN 02965And by my father’s love and leave am armedFTLN 0297With his goodwill and thy good company.FTLN 0298My trusty servant well approved in all,FTLN 0299Here let us breathe and haply instituteFTLN 0300A course of learning and ingenious studies.FTLN 030110Pisa, renownèd for grave citizens,FTLN 0302Gave me my being, and my father first,FTLN 0303A merchant of great traffic through the world,FTLN 0304Vincentio, come of the Bentivolii.FTLN 0305Vincentio’s son, brought up in Florence,FTLN 030615It shall become to serve all hopes conceivedFTLN 0307To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds.FTLN 0308And therefore, Tranio, for the time I studyFTLN 0309Virtue, and that part of philosophyFTLN 0310Will I apply that treats of happinessFTLN 031120By virtue specially to be achieved.FTLN 0312Tell me thy mind, for I have Pisa leftFTLN 0313And am to Padua come, as he that leaves

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FTLN 0314A shallow plash to plunge him in the deepFTLN 0315And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.TRANIOFTLN 031625Mi perdonato, gentle master mine.FTLN 0317I am in all affected as yourself,FTLN 0318Glad that you thus continue your resolveFTLN 0319To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.FTLN 0320Only, good master, while we do admireFTLN 032130This virtue and this moral discipline,FTLN 0322Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray,FTLN 0323Or so devote to Aristotle’s checksFTLN 0324As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured.FTLN 0325Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,FTLN 032635And practice rhetoric in your common talk;FTLN 0327Music and poesy use to quicken you;FTLN 0328The mathematics and the metaphysics—FTLN 0329Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.FTLN 0330No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en.FTLN 033140In brief, sir, study what you most affect.LUCENTIOFTLN 0332Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.FTLN 0333If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,FTLN 0334We could at once put us in readinessFTLN 0335And take a lodging fit to entertainFTLN 033645Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.

Enter Baptista with his two daughters, Katherine andBianca; Gremio, a pantaloon, and Hortensio, suitorsto Bianca.

FTLN 0337But stay awhile! What company is this?TRANIOFTLN 0338Master, some show to welcome us to town.Lucentio and Tranio stand by.BAPTISTA, to Gremio and HortensioFTLN 0339Gentlemen, importune me no farther,FTLN 0340For how I firmly am resolved you know:

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FTLN 034150That is, not to bestow my youngest daughterFTLN 0342Before I have a husband for the elder.FTLN 0343If either of you both love Katherine,FTLN 0344Because I know you well and love you well,FTLN 0345Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.GREMIOFTLN 034655To cart her, rather. She’s too rough for me.—FTLN 0347There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?KATHERINE, to BaptistaFTLN 0348I pray you, sir, is it your willFTLN 0349To make a stale of me amongst these mates?HORTENSIOFTLN 0350“Mates,” maid? How mean you that? No mates forFTLN 035160you,FTLN 0352Unless you were of gentler, milder mold.KATHERINEFTLN 0353I’ faith, sir, you shall never need to fear.FTLN 0354Iwis it is not halfway to her heart.FTLN 0355But if it were, doubt not her care should beFTLN 035665To comb your noddle with a three-legged stoolFTLN 0357And paint your face and use you like a fool.HORTENSIOFTLN 0358From all such devils, good Lord, deliver us!GREMIOFTLN 0359And me too, good Lord.TRANIO, aside to LucentioFTLN 0360Husht, master, here’s some good pastime toward;FTLN 036170That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.LUCENTIO, aside to TranioFTLN 0362But in the other’s silence do I seeFTLN 0363Maid’s mild behavior and sobriety.FTLN 0364Peace, Tranio.TRANIO, aside to LucentioFTLN 0365Well said, master. Mum, and gaze your fill.BAPTISTA, to Gremio and HortensioFTLN 036675Gentlemen, that I may soon make goodFTLN 0367What I have said—Bianca, get you in,

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FTLN 0368And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,FTLN 0369For I will love thee ne’er the less, my girl.KATHERINEFTLN 0370A pretty peat! It is bestFTLN 037180Put finger in the eye, an she knew why.BIANCAFTLN 0372Sister, content you in my discontent.—FTLN 0373Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe.FTLN 0374My books and instruments shall be my company,FTLN 0375On them to look and practice by myself.LUCENTIO, aside to TranioFTLN 037685Hark, Tranio, thou mayst hear Minerva speak!HORTENSIOFTLN 0377Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?FTLN 0378Sorry am I that our goodwill effectsFTLN 0379Bianca’s grief.GREMIOFTLN 0380Why will you mew her up,FTLN 038190Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,FTLN 0382And make her bear the penance of her tongue?BAPTISTAFTLN 0383Gentlemen, content you. I am resolved.—FTLN 0384Go in, Bianca.Bianca exits.FTLN 0385And for I know she taketh most delightFTLN 038695In music, instruments, and poetry,FTLN 0387Schoolmasters will I keep within my houseFTLN 0388Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,FTLN 0389Or, Signior Gremio, you know any such,FTLN 0390Prefer them hither. For to cunning menFTLN 0391100I will be very kind, and liberalFTLN 0392To mine own children in good bringing up.FTLN 0393And so, farewell.—Katherine, you may stay,FTLN 0394For I have more to commune with Bianca.He exits.KATHERINEFTLN 0395Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not?FTLN 0396105What, shall I be appointed hours as though, belike,FTLN 0397I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha!She exits.

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GREMIOFTLN 0398You may go to the Devil’s dam! Your gifts areFTLN 0399so good here’s none will hold you.—Their love isFTLN 0400not so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nailsFTLN 0401110together and fast it fairly out. Our cake’s dough onFTLN 0402both sides. Farewell. Yet for the love I bear myFTLN 0403sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fitFTLN 0404man to teach her that wherein she delights, I willFTLN 0405wish him to her father.HORTENSIOFTLN 0406115So will I, Signior Gremio. But a word, IFTLN 0407pray. Though the nature of our quarrel yet neverFTLN 0408brooked parle, know now upon advice, it touchethFTLN 0409us both (that we may yet again have access to ourFTLN 0410fair mistress and be happy rivals in Bianca’s love) toFTLN 0411120labor and effect one thing specially.GREMIOFTLN 0412What’s that, I pray?HORTENSIOFTLN 0413Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.GREMIOFTLN 0414A husband? A devil!HORTENSIOFTLN 0415I say “a husband.”GREMIOFTLN 0416125I say “a devil.” Think’st thou, Hortensio,FTLN 0417though her father be very rich, any man is so very aFTLN 0418fool to be married to hell?HORTENSIOFTLN 0419Tush, Gremio. Though it pass your patienceFTLN 0420and mine to endure her loud alarums, why,FTLN 0421130man, there be good fellows in the world, an a manFTLN 0422could light on them, would take her with all faults,FTLN 0423and money enough.GREMIOFTLN 0424I cannot tell. But I had as lief take her dowryFTLN 0425with this condition: to be whipped at the high crossFTLN 0426135every morning.HORTENSIOFTLN 0427Faith, as you say, there’s small choice inFTLN 0428rotten apples. But come, since this bar in lawFTLN 0429makes us friends, it shall be so far forth friendlyFTLN 0430maintained till by helping Baptista’s eldest daughterFTLN 0431140to a husband we set his youngest free for aFTLN 0432husband, and then have to ’t afresh. Sweet Bianca!FTLN 0433Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest gets theFTLN 0434ring. How say you, Signior Gremio?

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GREMIOFTLN 0435I am agreed, and would I had given him theFTLN 0436145best horse in Padua to begin his wooing that wouldFTLN 0437thoroughly woo her, wed her, and bed her, and ridFTLN 0438the house of her. Come on.Gremio and Hortensio exit.Tranio and Lucentio remain onstage.TRANIOFTLN 0439I pray, sir, tell me, is it possibleFTLN 0440That love should of a sudden take such hold?LUCENTIOFTLN 0441150O Tranio, till I found it to be true,FTLN 0442I never thought it possible or likely.FTLN 0443But see, while idly I stood looking on,FTLN 0444I found the effect of love-in-idleness,FTLN 0445And now in plainness do confess to theeFTLN 0446155That art to me as secret and as dearFTLN 0447As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was:FTLN 0448Tranio, I burn, I pine! I perish, Tranio,FTLN 0449If I achieve not this young modest girl.FTLN 0450Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst.FTLN 0451160Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.TRANIOFTLN 0452Master, it is no time to chide you now.FTLN 0453Affection is not rated from the heart.FTLN 0454If love have touched you, naught remains but so:FTLN 0455Redime te captum quam queas minimo.LUCENTIOFTLN 0456165Gramercies, lad. Go forward. This contents;FTLN 0457The rest will comfort, for thy counsel’s sound.TRANIOFTLN 0458Master, you looked so longly on the maid,FTLN 0459Perhaps you marked not what’s the pith of all.LUCENTIOFTLN 0460O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,FTLN 0461170Such as the daughter of Agenor had,FTLN 0462That made great Jove to humble him to her handFTLN 0463When with his knees he kissed the Cretan strand.

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TRANIOFTLN 0464Saw you no more? Marked you not how her sisterFTLN 0465Began to scold and raise up such a stormFTLN 0466175That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?LUCENTIOFTLN 0467Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,FTLN 0468And with her breath she did perfume the air.FTLN 0469Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.TRANIO, asideFTLN 0470Nay, then ’tis time to stir him from his trance.—FTLN 0471180I pray, awake, sir! If you love the maid,FTLN 0472Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus itFTLN 0473stands:FTLN 0474Her elder sister is so curst and shrewdFTLN 0475That till the father rid his hands of her,FTLN 0476185Master, your love must live a maid at home,FTLN 0477And therefore has he closely mewed her up,FTLN 0478Because she will not be annoyed with suitors.LUCENTIOFTLN 0479Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father’s he!FTLN 0480But art thou not advised he took some careFTLN 0481190To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?TRANIOFTLN 0482Ay, marry, am I, sir—and now ’tis plotted!LUCENTIOFTLN 0483I have it, Tranio!TRANIOFTLN 0484Master, for my hand,FTLN 0485Both our inventions meet and jump in one.LUCENTIOFTLN 0486195Tell me thine first.TRANIOFTLN 0487You will be schoolmasterFTLN 0488And undertake the teaching of the maid:FTLN 0489That’s your device.LUCENTIOFTLN 0490It is. May it be done?TRANIOFTLN 0491200Not possible. For who shall bear your part

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FTLN 0492And be in Padua here Vincentio’s son,FTLN 0493Keep house, and ply his book, welcome his friends,FTLN 0494Visit his countrymen and banquet them?LUCENTIOFTLN 0495Basta, content thee, for I have it full.FTLN 0496205We have not yet been seen in any house,FTLN 0497Nor can we be distinguished by our facesFTLN 0498For man or master. Then it follows thus:FTLN 0499Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,FTLN 0500Keep house, and port, and servants, as I should.FTLN 0501210I will some other be, some Florentine,FTLN 0502Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.FTLN 0503’Tis hatched, and shall be so. Tranio, at onceFTLN 0504Uncase thee. Take my colored hat and cloak.They exchange clothes.FTLN 0505When Biondello comes, he waits on thee,FTLN 0506215But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.TRANIOFTLN 0507So had you need.FTLN 0508In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,FTLN 0509And I am tied to be obedientFTLN 0510(For so your father charged me at our parting:FTLN 0511220“Be serviceable to my son,” quoth he,FTLN 0512Although I think ’twas in another sense),FTLN 0513I am content to be Lucentio,FTLN 0514Because so well I love Lucentio.LUCENTIOFTLN 0515Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves,FTLN 0516225And let me be a slave, t’ achieve that maidFTLN 0517Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye.

Enter Biondello.

FTLN 0518Here comes the rogue.—Sirrah, where have youFTLN 0519been?BIONDELLOFTLN 0520Where have I been? Nay, how now, where are you?

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FTLN 0521230Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your clothes?FTLN 0522Or you stolen his? Or both? Pray, what’s the news?LUCENTIOFTLN 0523Sirrah, come hither. ’Tis no time to jest,FTLN 0524And therefore frame your manners to the time.FTLN 0525Your fellow, Tranio here, to save my life,FTLN 0526235Puts my apparel and my count’nance on,FTLN 0527And I for my escape have put on his;FTLN 0528For in a quarrel since I came ashoreFTLN 0529I killed a man and fear I was descried.FTLN 0530Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,FTLN 0531240While I make way from hence to save my life.FTLN 0532You understand me?BIONDELLOFTLN 0533Ay, sir.Aside. Ne’er a whit.LUCENTIOFTLN 0534And not a jot of “Tranio” in your mouth.FTLN 0535Tranio is changed into Lucentio.BIONDELLOFTLN 0536245The better for him. Would I were so too.TRANIOFTLN 0537So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,FTLN 0538That Lucentio indeed had Baptista’s youngestFTLN 0539daughter.FTLN 0540But, sirrah, not for my sake, but your master’s, IFTLN 0541250adviseFTLN 0542You use your manners discreetly in all kind ofFTLN 0543companies.FTLN 0544When I am alone, why then I am Tranio;FTLN 0545But in all places else, your master Lucentio.LUCENTIOFTLN 0546255Tranio, let’s go. One thing more rests, thatFTLN 0547thyself execute, to make one among these wooers. IfFTLN 0548thou ask me why, sufficeth my reasons are bothFTLN 0549good and weighty.They exit.The Presenters above speak.FIRST SERVINGMANFTLN 0550My lord, you nod. You do not mind the play.

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SLYFTLN 0551260Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely.FTLN 0552Comes there any more of it?PAGE, as LadyFTLN 0553My lord, ’tis but begun.SLYFTLN 0554’Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady.FTLN 0555Would ’twere done.They sit and mark.

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Enter Petruchio and his man Grumio.

PETRUCHIOFTLN 0556Verona, for a while I take my leaveFTLN 0557To see my friends in Padua, but of allFTLN 0558My best belovèd and approvèd friend,FTLN 0559Hortensio. And I trow this is his house.FTLN 05605Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say.GRUMIOFTLN 0561Knock, sir? Whom should I knock? Is thereFTLN 0562any man has rebused your Worship?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0563Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.GRUMIOFTLN 0564Knock you here, sir? Why, sir, what am I, sir,FTLN 056510that I should knock you here, sir?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0566Villain, I say, knock me at this gateFTLN 0567And rap me well, or I’ll knock your knave’s pate.GRUMIOFTLN 0568My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knockFTLN 0569you first,FTLN 057015And then I know after who comes by the worst.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0571Will it not be?FTLN 0572Faith, sirrah, an you’ll not knock, I’ll ring it.FTLN 0573I’ll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.He wrings him by the ears. Grumio falls.GRUMIOFTLN 0574Help, mistress, help! My master is mad.PETRUCHIOFTLN 057520Now knock when I bid you, sirrahFTLN 0576villain.

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Enter Hortensio.

HORTENSIOFTLN 0577How now, what’s the matter? My oldFTLN 0578friend Grumio and my good friend Petruchio? HowFTLN 0579do you all at Verona?PETRUCHIOFTLN 058025Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?FTLN 0581Con tutto il cuore ben trovato, may I say.HORTENSIOFTLN 0582Alia nostra casa ben venuto, moltoFTLN 0583honorato signor mio Petruchio.—Rise, Grumio,FTLN 0584rise. We will compound this quarrel.Grumio rises.GRUMIOFTLN 058530Nay, ’tis no matter, sir, what he ’leges inFTLN 0586Latin. If this be not a lawful cause for me to leaveFTLN 0587his service—look you, sir: he bid me knock himFTLN 0588and rap him soundly, sir. Well, was it fit for aFTLN 0589servant to use his master so, being perhaps, forFTLN 059035aught I see, two-and-thirty, a pip out?FTLN 0591Whom, would to God, I had well knocked at first,FTLN 0592Then had not Grumio come by the worst.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0593A senseless villain, good Hortensio.FTLN 0594I bade the rascal knock upon your gateFTLN 059540And could not get him for my heart to do it.GRUMIOFTLN 0596Knock at the gate? O, heavens, spake you notFTLN 0597these words plain: “Sirrah, knock me here, rap meFTLN 0598here, knock me well, and knock me soundly”? AndFTLN 0599come you now with “knocking at the gate”?PETRUCHIOFTLN 060045Sirrah, begone, or talk not, I advise you.HORTENSIOFTLN 0601Petruchio, patience. I am Grumio’s pledge.FTLN 0602Why, this’ a heavy chance ’twixt him and you,FTLN 0603Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.FTLN 0604And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy galeFTLN 060550Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0606Such wind as scatters young men through the world

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FTLN 0607To seek their fortunes farther than at home,FTLN 0608Where small experience grows. But in a few,FTLN 0609Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:FTLN 061055Antonio, my father, is deceased,FTLN 0611And I have thrust myself into this maze,FTLN 0612Happily to wive and thrive, as best I may.FTLN 0613Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home,FTLN 0614And so am come abroad to see the world.HORTENSIOFTLN 061560Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to theeFTLN 0616And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favored wife?FTLN 0617Thou ’dst thank me but a little for my counsel—FTLN 0618And yet I’ll promise thee she shall be rich,FTLN 0619And very rich. But thou ’rt too much my friend,FTLN 062065And I’ll not wish thee to her.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0621Signior Hortensio, ’twixt such friends as weFTLN 0622Few words suffice. And therefore, if thou knowFTLN 0623One rich enough to be Petruchio’s wifeFTLN 0624(As wealth is burden of my wooing dance),FTLN 062570Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,FTLN 0626As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewdFTLN 0627As Socrates’ Xanthippe, or a worse,FTLN 0628She moves me not, or not removes at leastFTLN 0629Affection’s edge in me, were she as roughFTLN 063075As are the swelling Adriatic seas.FTLN 0631I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;FTLN 0632If wealthily, then happily in Padua.GRUMIO, to HortensioFTLN 0633Nay, look you, sir, he tells youFTLN 0634flatly what his mind is. Why, give him gold enoughFTLN 063580and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby, or anFTLN 0636old trot with ne’er a tooth in her head, though sheFTLN 0637have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses. Why,FTLN 0638nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.HORTENSIOFTLN 0639Petruchio, since we are stepped thus far in,

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FTLN 064085I will continue that I broached in jest.FTLN 0641I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wifeFTLN 0642With wealth enough, and young and beauteous,FTLN 0643Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman.FTLN 0644Her only fault, and that is faults enough,FTLN 064590Is that she is intolerable curst,FTLN 0646And shrewd, and froward, so beyond all measureFTLN 0647That, were my state far worser than it is,FTLN 0648I would not wed her for a mine of gold.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0649Hortensio, peace. Thou know’st not gold’s effect.FTLN 065095Tell me her father’s name, and ’tis enough;FTLN 0651For I will board her, though she chide as loudFTLN 0652As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.HORTENSIOFTLN 0653Her father is Baptista Minola,FTLN 0654An affable and courteous gentleman.FTLN 0655100Her name is Katherina Minola,FTLN 0656Renowned in Padua for her scolding tongue.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0657I know her father, though I know not her,FTLN 0658And he knew my deceasèd father well.FTLN 0659I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her,FTLN 0660105And therefore let me be thus bold with youFTLN 0661To give you over at this first encounter—FTLN 0662Unless you will accompany me thither.GRUMIO, to HortensioFTLN 0663I pray you, sir, let him go whileFTLN 0664the humor lasts. O’ my word, an she knew him asFTLN 0665110well as I do, she would think scolding would do littleFTLN 0666good upon him. She may perhaps call him half aFTLN 0667score knaves or so. Why, that’s nothing; an he beginFTLN 0668once, he’ll rail in his rope tricks. I’ll tell you what,FTLN 0669sir, an she stand him but a little, he will throw aFTLN 0670115figure in her face and so disfigure her with it thatFTLN 0671she shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat.FTLN 0672You know him not, sir.

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HORTENSIOFTLN 0673Tarry, Petruchio. I must go with thee,FTLN 0674For in Baptista’s keep my treasure is.FTLN 0675120He hath the jewel of my life in hold,FTLN 0676His youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca,FTLN 0677And her withholds from me and other more,FTLN 0678Suitors to her and rivals in my love,FTLN 0679Supposing it a thing impossible,FTLN 0680125For those defects I have before rehearsed,FTLN 0681That ever Katherina will be wooed.FTLN 0682Therefore this order hath Baptista ta’en,FTLN 0683That none shall have access unto BiancaFTLN 0684Till Katherine the curst have got a husband.GRUMIOFTLN 0685130“Katherine the curst,”FTLN 0686A title for a maid, of all titles the worst.HORTENSIOFTLN 0687Now shall my friend Petruchio do me graceFTLN 0688And offer me disguised in sober robesFTLN 0689To old Baptista as a schoolmasterFTLN 0690135Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca,FTLN 0691That so I may, by this device at least,FTLN 0692Have leave and leisure to make love to herFTLN 0693And unsuspected court her by herself.GRUMIOFTLN 0694Here’s no knavery! See, to beguile the oldFTLN 0695140folks, how the young folks lay their heads together!

GREMIO, to LucentioFTLN 0700145O, very well, I have perused the note.FTLN 0701Hark you, sir, I’ll have them very fairly bound,FTLN 0702All books of love. See that at any hand,FTLN 0703And see you read no other lectures to her.FTLN 0704You understand me. Over and besideFTLN 0705150Signior Baptista’s liberality,FTLN 0706I’ll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too.FTLN 0707And let me have them very well perfumed,FTLN 0708For she is sweeter than perfume itselfFTLN 0709To whom they go to. What will you read to her?LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 0710155Whate’er I read to her, I’ll plead for youFTLN 0711As for my patron, stand you so assured,FTLN 0712As firmly as yourself were still in place,FTLN 0713Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsFTLN 0714Than you—unless you were a scholar, sir.GREMIOFTLN 0715160O this learning, what a thing it is!GRUMIO, asideFTLN 0716O this woodcock, what an ass it is!PETRUCHIO, asideFTLN 0717Peace, sirrah.HORTENSIO, asideFTLN 0718Grumio, mum.Coming forward.FTLN 0719God save you, Signior Gremio.GREMIOFTLN 0720165And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.FTLN 0721Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.FTLN 0722I promised to enquire carefullyFTLN 0723About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca,FTLN 0724And by good fortune I have lighted wellFTLN 0725170On this young man, for learning and behaviorFTLN 0726Fit for her turn, well read in poetryFTLN 0727And other books—good ones, I warrant you.HORTENSIOFTLN 0728’Tis well. And I have met a gentleman

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FTLN 0729Hath promised me to help me to another,FTLN 0730175A fine musician to instruct our mistress.FTLN 0731So shall I no whit be behind in dutyFTLN 0732To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.GREMIOFTLN 0733Beloved of me, and that my deeds shall prove.GRUMIO, asideFTLN 0734And that his bags shall prove.HORTENSIOFTLN 0735180Gremio, ’tis now no time to vent our love.FTLN 0736Listen to me, and if you speak me fairFTLN 0737I’ll tell you news indifferent good for either.Presenting Petruchio.FTLN 0738Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,FTLN 0739Upon agreement from us to his liking,FTLN 0740185Will undertake to woo curst Katherine,FTLN 0741Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.GREMIOFTLN 0742So said, so done, is well.FTLN 0743Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0744I know she is an irksome, brawling scold.FTLN 0745190If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.GREMIOFTLN 0746No? Sayst me so, friend? What countryman?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0747Born in Verona, old Antonio’s son.FTLN 0748My father dead, my fortune lives for me,FTLN 0749And I do hope good days and long to see.GREMIOFTLN 0750195Oh, sir, such a life with such a wife were strange.FTLN 0751But if you have a stomach, to ’t, i’ God’s name!FTLN 0752You shall have me assisting you in all.FTLN 0753But will you woo this wildcat?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0754Will I live?GRUMIOFTLN 0755200Will he woo her? Ay, or I’ll hang her.

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 0756Why came I hither but to that intent?FTLN 0757Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?FTLN 0758Have I not in my time heard lions roar?FTLN 0759Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds,FTLN 0760205Rage like an angry boar chafèd with sweat?FTLN 0761Have I not heard great ordnance in the fieldFTLN 0762And heaven’s artillery thunder in the skies?FTLN 0763Have I not in a pitchèd battle heardFTLN 0764Loud ’larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets clang?FTLN 0765210And do you tell me of a woman’s tongue,FTLN 0766That gives not half so great a blow to hearFTLN 0767As will a chestnut in a farmer’s fire?FTLN 0768Tush, tush, fear boys with bugs!GRUMIOFTLN 0769For he fears none.GREMIOFTLN 0770215Hortensio, hark.FTLN 0771This gentleman is happily arrived,FTLN 0772My mind presumes, for his own good and yours.HORTENSIOFTLN 0773I promised we would be contributorsFTLN 0774And bear his charge of wooing whatsoe’er.GREMIOFTLN 0775220And so we will, provided that he win her.GRUMIOFTLN 0776I would I were as sure of a good dinner.

Enter Tranio, disguised as Lucentio, and Biondello.

TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0777Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold,FTLN 0778Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest wayFTLN 0779To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?BIONDELLOFTLN 0780225He that has the two fair daughters—is ’tFTLN 0781he you mean?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0782Even he, Biondello.GREMIOFTLN 0783Hark you, sir, you mean not her to—

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TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0784Perhaps him and her, sir. What have you to do?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0785230Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0786I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let’s away.LUCENTIO, asideFTLN 0787Well begun, Tranio.HORTENSIOFTLN 0788Sir, a word ere you go.FTLN 0789Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0790235An if I be, sir, is it any offense?GREMIOFTLN 0791No, if without more words you will get you hence.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0792Why sir, I pray, are not the streets as freeFTLN 0793For me, as for you?GREMIOFTLN 0794But so is not she.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0795240For what reason, I beseech you?GREMIOFTLN 0796For this reason, if you’ll know:FTLN 0797That she’s the choice love of Signior Gremio.HORTENSIOFTLN 0798That she’s the chosen of Signior Hortensio.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0799Softly, my masters. If you be gentlemen,FTLN 0800245Do me this right: hear me with patience.FTLN 0801Baptista is a noble gentlemanFTLN 0802To whom my father is not all unknown,FTLN 0803And were his daughter fairer than she is,FTLN 0804She may more suitors have, and me for one.FTLN 0805250Fair Leda’s daughter had a thousand wooers.FTLN 0806Then well one more may fair Bianca have.FTLN 0807And so she shall. Lucentio shall make one,FTLN 0808Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.

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GREMIOFTLN 0809What, this gentleman will out-talk us all!LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 0810255Sir, give him head; I know he’ll prove a jade.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0811Hortensio, to what end are all these words?HORTENSIO, to TranioFTLN 0812Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,FTLN 0813Did you yet ever see Baptista’s daughter?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0814No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two,FTLN 0815260The one as famous for a scolding tongueFTLN 0816As is the other for beauteous modesty.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0817Sir, sir, the first’s for me; let her go by.GREMIOFTLN 0818Yea, leave that labor to great Hercules,FTLN 0819And let it be more than Alcides’ twelve.PETRUCHIO, to TranioFTLN 0820265Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth:FTLN 0821The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for,FTLN 0822Her father keeps from all access of suitorsFTLN 0823And will not promise her to any manFTLN 0824Until the elder sister first be wed.FTLN 0825270The younger then is free, and not before.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0826If it be so, sir, that you are the manFTLN 0827Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest,FTLN 0828And if you break the ice and do this feat,FTLN 0829Achieve the elder, set the younger freeFTLN 0830275For our access, whose hap shall be to have herFTLN 0831Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.HORTENSIOFTLN 0832Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive.FTLN 0833And since you do profess to be a suitor,FTLN 0834You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,FTLN 0835280To whom we all rest generally beholding.

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TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0836Sir, I shall not be slack; in sign whereof,FTLN 0837Please you we may contrive this afternoonFTLN 0838And quaff carouses to our mistress’ health,FTLN 0839And do as adversaries do in law,FTLN 0840285Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.GRUMIO and BIONDELLOFTLN 0841O excellent motion! Fellows, let’s be gone.HORTENSIOFTLN 0842The motion’s good indeed, and be it so.—FTLN 0843Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.They exit.

ACT2

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Enter Katherine and Bianca with her hands tied.

BIANCAFTLN 0844Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,FTLN 0845To make a bondmaid and a slave of me.FTLN 0846That I disdain. But for these other goods—FTLN 0847Unbind my hands, I’ll pull them off myself,FTLN 08485Yea, all my raiment to my petticoat,FTLN 0849Or what you will command me will I do,FTLN 0850So well I know my duty to my elders.KATHERINEFTLN 0851Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tellFTLN 0852Whom thou lov’st best. See thou dissemble not.BIANCAFTLN 085310Believe me, sister, of all the men aliveFTLN 0854I never yet beheld that special faceFTLN 0855Which I could fancy more than any other.KATHERINEFTLN 0856Minion, thou liest. Is ’t not Hortensio?BIANCAFTLN 0857If you affect him, sister, here I swearFTLN 085815I’ll plead for you myself, but you shall have him.KATHERINEFTLN 0859O, then belike you fancy riches more.FTLN 0860You will have Gremio to keep you fair.

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BIANCAFTLN 0861Is it for him you do envy me so?FTLN 0862Nay, then, you jest, and now I well perceiveFTLN 086320You have but jested with me all this while.FTLN 0864I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.Katherine strikes her.KATHERINEFTLN 0865If that be jest, then all the rest was so.

Enter Baptista.

BAPTISTAFTLN 0866Why, how now, dame, whence grows thisFTLN 0867insolence?—FTLN 086825Bianca, stand aside.—Poor girl, she weeps!He unties her hands.FTLN 0869To Bianca.Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.FTLN 0870To Katherine.For shame, thou hilding of a devilishFTLN 0871spirit!FTLN 0872Why dost thou wrong her that did ne’er wrongFTLN 087330thee?FTLN 0874When did she cross thee with a bitter word?KATHERINEFTLN 0875Her silence flouts me, and I’ll be revenged!She flies after Bianca.BAPTISTAFTLN 0876What, in my sight?—Bianca, get thee in.Bianca exits.KATHERINEFTLN 0877What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I seeFTLN 087835She is your treasure, she must have a husband,FTLN 0879I must dance barefoot on her wedding dayFTLN 0880And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.FTLN 0881Talk not to me. I will go sit and weepFTLN 0882Till I can find occasion of revenge.She exits.BAPTISTAFTLN 088340Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?FTLN 0884But who comes here?

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Enter Gremio; Lucentio disguised as Cambioin the habit of a mean man; Petruchio withHortensio disguised as Litio; and Tranio disguisedas Lucentio, with his boy, Biondello bearing a luteand books.

GREMIOFTLN 0885Good morrow, neighbor Baptista.BAPTISTAFTLN 0886Good morrow, neighbor Gremio.—GodFTLN 0887save you, gentlemen.PETRUCHIOFTLN 088845And you, good sir. Pray, have you not a daughterFTLN 0889Called Katherina, fair and virtuous?BAPTISTAFTLN 0890I have a daughter, sir, called Katherina.GREMIO, to PetruchioFTLN 0891You are too blunt. Go to it orderly.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0892You wrong me, Signior Gremio. Give me leave.—FTLN 089350I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,FTLN 0894That hearing of her beauty and her wit,FTLN 0895Her affability and bashful modesty,FTLN 0896Her wondrous qualities and mild behavior,FTLN 0897Am bold to show myself a forward guestFTLN 089855Within your house, to make mine eye the witnessFTLN 0899Of that report which I so oft have heard,FTLN 0900And, for an entrance to my entertainment,FTLN 0901I do present you with a man of mine,Presenting Hortensio, disguised as LitioFTLN 0902Cunning in music and the mathematics,FTLN 090360To instruct her fully in those sciences,FTLN 0904Whereof I know she is not ignorant.FTLN 0905Accept of him, or else you do me wrong.FTLN 0906His name is Litio, born in Mantua.BAPTISTAFTLN 0907You’re welcome, sir, and he for your good sake.

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FTLN 090865But for my daughter Katherine, this I know,FTLN 0909She is not for your turn, the more my grief.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0910I see you do not mean to part with her,FTLN 0911Or else you like not of my company.BAPTISTAFTLN 0912Mistake me not. I speak but as I find.FTLN 091370Whence are you, sir? What may I call your name?PETRUCHIOFTLN 0914Petruchio is my name, Antonio’s son,FTLN 0915A man well known throughout all Italy.BAPTISTAFTLN 0916I know him well. You are welcome for his sake.GREMIOFTLN 0917Saving your tale, Petruchio, I prayFTLN 091875Let us that are poor petitioners speak too!FTLN 0919Bacare, you are marvelous forward.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0920O, pardon me, Signior Gremio, I would fain beFTLN 0921doing.GREMIOFTLN 0922I doubt it not, sir. But you will curse your wooing.FTLN 092380To Baptista. Neighbor, this is a gift very grateful,FTLN 0924I am sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself,FTLN 0925that have been more kindly beholding to you thanFTLN 0926any, freely give unto you this young scholarpresentingLucentio, disguised as CambioFTLN 0927that hathFTLN 092885been long studying at Rheims, as cunning in Greek,FTLN 0929Latin, and other languages as the other in music andFTLN 0930mathematics. His name is Cambio. Pray accept hisFTLN 0931service.BAPTISTAFTLN 0932A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio.—Welcome,FTLN 093390good Cambio.To Tranio as Lucentio. But,FTLN 0934gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger. May IFTLN 0935be so bold to know the cause of your coming?

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TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0936Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,FTLN 0937That being a stranger in this city hereFTLN 093895Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,FTLN 0939Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.FTLN 0940Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me,FTLN 0941In the preferment of the eldest sister.FTLN 0942This liberty is all that I request,FTLN 0943100That, upon knowledge of my parentage,FTLN 0944I may have welcome ’mongst the rest that wooFTLN 0945And free access and favor as the rest.FTLN 0946And toward the education of your daughtersFTLN 0947I here bestow a simple instrumentFTLN 0948105And this small packet of Greek and Latin books.Biondello comes forward with the gifts.FTLN 0949If you accept them, then their worth is great.BAPTISTAFTLN 0950Lucentio is your name. Of whence, I pray?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 0951Of Pisa, sir, son to Vincentio.BAPTISTAFTLN 0952A mighty man of Pisa. By reportFTLN 0953110I know him well. You are very welcome, sir.FTLN 0954To Hortensio as Litio.Take you the lute,FTLN 0955To Lucentio as Cambio.and you the set of books.FTLN 0956You shall go see your pupils presently.FTLN 0957Holla, within!

Enter a Servant.

FTLN 0958115Sirrah, lead these gentlemenFTLN 0959To my daughters, and tell them bothFTLN 0960These are their tutors. Bid them use them well.Servant exits with Hortensio and Lucentio.FTLN 0961We will go walk a little in the orchard,FTLN 0962And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,FTLN 0963120And so I pray you all to think yourselves.

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 0964Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,FTLN 0965And every day I cannot come to woo.FTLN 0966You knew my father well, and in him me,FTLN 0967Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,FTLN 0968125Which I have bettered rather than decreased.FTLN 0969Then tell me, if I get your daughter’s love,FTLN 0970What dowry shall I have with her to wife?BAPTISTAFTLN 0971After my death, the one half of my lands,FTLN 0972And, in possession, twenty thousand crowns.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0973130And, for that dowry, I’ll assure her ofFTLN 0974Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,FTLN 0975In all my lands and leases whatsoever.FTLN 0976Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,FTLN 0977That covenants may be kept on either hand.BAPTISTAFTLN 0978135Ay, when the special thing is well obtained,FTLN 0979That is, her love, for that is all in all.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0980Why, that is nothing. For I tell you, father,FTLN 0981I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;FTLN 0982And where two raging fires meet together,FTLN 0983140They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.FTLN 0984Though little fire grows great with little wind,FTLN 0985Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.FTLN 0986So I to her and so she yields to me,FTLN 0987For I am rough and woo not like a babe.BAPTISTAFTLN 0988145Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed.FTLN 0989But be thou armed for some unhappy words.PETRUCHIOFTLN 0990Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,FTLN 0991That shakes not, though they blow perpetually.

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Enter Hortensio as Litio with his head broke.

BAPTISTAFTLN 0992How now, my friend, why dost thou look so pale?HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 0993150For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.BAPTISTAFTLN 0994What, will my daughter prove a good musician?HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 0995I think she’ll sooner prove a soldier!FTLN 0996Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.BAPTISTAFTLN 0997Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 0998155Why, no, for she hath broke the lute to me.FTLN 0999I did but tell her she mistook her frets,FTLN 1000And bowed her hand to teach her fingering,FTLN 1001When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,FTLN 1002“‘Frets’ call you these?” quoth she. “I’ll fume withFTLN 1003160them!”FTLN 1004And with that word she struck me on the head,FTLN 1005And through the instrument my pate made way,FTLN 1006And there I stood amazèd for a while,FTLN 1007As on a pillory, looking through the lute,FTLN 1008165While she did call me “rascal fiddler,”FTLN 1009And “twangling Jack,” with twenty such vile terms,FTLN 1010As had she studied to misuse me so.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1011Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench.FTLN 1012I love her ten times more than ere I did.FTLN 1013170O, how I long to have some chat with her!BAPTISTA, to Hortensio as LitioFTLN 1014Well, go with me, and be not so discomfited.FTLN 1015Proceed in practice with my younger daughter.FTLN 1016She’s apt to learn, and thankful for good turns.—FTLN 1017Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,FTLN 1018175Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 1019I pray you do. I’ll attend her here—All but Petruchio exit.FTLN 1020And woo her with some spirit when she comes!FTLN 1021Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plainFTLN 1022She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.FTLN 1023180Say that she frown, I’ll say she looks as clearFTLN 1024As morning roses newly washed with dew.FTLN 1025Say she be mute and will not speak a word,FTLN 1026Then I’ll commend her volubilityFTLN 1027And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.FTLN 1028185If she do bid me pack, I’ll give her thanksFTLN 1029As though she bid me stay by her a week.FTLN 1030If she deny to wed, I’ll crave the dayFTLN 1031When I shall ask the banns, and when be marrièd.FTLN 1032But here she comes—and now, Petruchio, speak.

Enter Katherine.

FTLN 1033190Good morrow, Kate, for that’s your name, I hear.KATHERINEFTLN 1034Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing.FTLN 1035They call me Katherine that do talk of me.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1036You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate,FTLN 1037And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst.FTLN 1038195But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,FTLN 1039Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty KateFTLN 1040(For dainties are all Kates)—and therefore, Kate,FTLN 1041Take this of me, Kate of my consolation:FTLN 1042Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,FTLN 1043200Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty soundedFTLN 1044(Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs),FTLN 1045Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.KATHERINEFTLN 1046“Moved,” in good time! Let him that moved youFTLN 1047hither

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FTLN 1048205Remove you hence. I knew you at the firstFTLN 1049You were a movable.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1050Why, what’s a movable?KATHERINEFTLN 1051A joint stool.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1052Thou hast hit it. Come, sit on me.KATHERINEFTLN 1053210Asses are made to bear, and so are you.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1054Women are made to bear, and so are you.KATHERINEFTLN 1055No such jade as you, if me you mean.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1056Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee,FTLN 1057For knowing thee to be but young and light—KATHERINEFTLN 1058215Too light for such a swain as you to catch,FTLN 1059And yet as heavy as my weight should be.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1060“Should be”—should buzz!KATHERINEFTLN 1061Well ta’en, and like aFTLN 1062buzzard.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1063220O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?KATHERINEFTLN 1064Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1065Come, come, you wasp! I’ faith, you are too angry.KATHERINEFTLN 1066If I be waspish, best beware my sting.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1067My remedy is then to pluck it out.KATHERINEFTLN 1068225Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 1069Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?FTLN 1070In his tail.KATHERINEFTLN 1071In his tongue.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1072Whose tongue?KATHERINEFTLN 1073230Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1074What, with my tongue in your tail?FTLN 1075Nay, come again, good Kate. I am a gentleman—KATHERINEFTLN 1076That I’ll try.She strikes him.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1077I swear I’ll cuff you if you strike again.KATHERINEFTLN 1078235So may you lose your arms.FTLN 1079If you strike me, you are no gentleman,FTLN 1080And if no gentleman, why then no arms.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1081A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books.KATHERINEFTLN 1082What is your crest? A coxcomb?PETRUCHIOFTLN 1083240A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.KATHERINEFTLN 1084No cock of mine. You crow too like a craven.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1085Nay, come, Kate, come. You must not look so sour.KATHERINEFTLN 1086It is my fashion when I see a crab.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1087Why, here’s no crab, and therefore look not sour.KATHERINEFTLN 1088245There is, there is.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1089Then show it me.KATHERINEFTLN 1090Had I a glass, I would.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1091What, you mean my face?KATHERINEFTLN 1092Well aimed of such a young one.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1093250Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.

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KATHERINEFTLN 1094Yet you are withered.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1095’Tis with cares.KATHERINEFTLN 1096I care not.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1097Nay, hear you, Kate—in sooth, you ’scape not so.KATHERINEFTLN 1098255I chafe you if I tarry. Let me go.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1099No, not a whit. I find you passing gentle.FTLN 1100’Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen,FTLN 1101And now I find report a very liar.FTLN 1102For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passingFTLN 1103260courteous,FTLN 1104But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers.FTLN 1105Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,FTLN 1106Nor bite the lip as angry wenches will,FTLN 1107Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk.FTLN 1108265But thou with mildness entertain’st thy wooers,FTLN 1109With gentle conference, soft, and affable.FTLN 1110Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?FTLN 1111O sland’rous world! Kate like the hazel twigFTLN 1112Is straight, and slender, and as brown in hueFTLN 1113270As hazelnuts, and sweeter than the kernels.FTLN 1114O, let me see thee walk! Thou dost not halt.KATHERINEFTLN 1115Go, fool, and whom thou keep’st command.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1116Did ever Dian so become a groveFTLN 1117As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?FTLN 1118275O, be thou Dian and let her be Kate,FTLN 1119And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful.KATHERINEFTLN 1120Where did you study all this goodly speech?PETRUCHIOFTLN 1121It is extempore, from my mother wit.

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KATHERINEFTLN 1122A witty mother, witless else her son.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1123280Am I not wise?KATHERINEFTLN 1124Yes, keep you warm.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1125Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed.FTLN 1126And therefore, setting all this chat aside,FTLN 1127Thus in plain terms: your father hath consentedFTLN 1128285That you shall be my wife, your dowry ’greed on,FTLN 1129And, will you, nill you, I will marry you.FTLN 1130Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn,FTLN 1131For by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,FTLN 1132Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,FTLN 1133290Thou must be married to no man but me.FTLN 1134For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,FTLN 1135And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateFTLN 1136Conformable as other household Kates.

Enter Baptista, Gremio, and Tranio as Lucentio.

FTLN 1137Here comes your father. Never make denial.FTLN 1138295I must and will have Katherine to my wife.BAPTISTAFTLN 1139Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with myFTLN 1140daughter?PETRUCHIOFTLN 1141How but well, sir? How but well?FTLN 1142It were impossible I should speed amiss.BAPTISTAFTLN 1143300Why, how now, daughter Katherine? In yourFTLN 1144dumps?KATHERINEFTLN 1145Call you me daughter? Now I promise youFTLN 1146You have showed a tender fatherly regard,FTLN 1147To wish me wed to one half lunatic,FTLN 1148305A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack,FTLN 1149That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 1150Father, ’tis thus: yourself and all the worldFTLN 1151That talked of her have talked amiss of her.FTLN 1152If she be curst, it is for policy,FTLN 1153310For she’s not froward, but modest as the dove;FTLN 1154She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.FTLN 1155For patience she will prove a second Grissel,FTLN 1156And Roman Lucrece for her chastity.FTLN 1157And to conclude, we have ’greed so well togetherFTLN 1158315That upon Sunday is the wedding day.KATHERINEFTLN 1159I’ll see thee hanged on Sunday first.GREMIOFTLN 1160Hark, Petruchio, she says she’ll see theeFTLN 1161hanged first.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1162Is this your speeding? Nay,FTLN 1163320then, goodnight our part.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1164Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself.FTLN 1165If she and I be pleased, what’s that to you?FTLN 1166’Tis bargained ’twixt us twain, being alone,FTLN 1167That she shall still be curst in company.FTLN 1168325I tell you, ’tis incredible to believeFTLN 1169How much she loves me. O, the kindest Kate!FTLN 1170She hung about my neck, and kiss on kissFTLN 1171She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,FTLN 1172That in a twink she won me to her love.FTLN 1173330O, you are novices! ’Tis a world to seeFTLN 1174How tame, when men and women are alone,FTLN 1175A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.—FTLN 1176Give me thy hand, Kate. I will unto VeniceFTLN 1177To buy apparel ’gainst the wedding day.—FTLN 1178335Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests.FTLN 1179I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.BAPTISTAFTLN 1180I know not what to say, but give me your hands.FTLN 1181God send you joy, Petruchio. ’Tis a match.

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GREMIO and TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1182Amen, say we. We will be witnesses.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1183340Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu.FTLN 1184I will to Venice. Sunday comes apace.FTLN 1185We will have rings, and things, and fine array,FTLN 1186And kiss me, Kate. We will be married o’ Sunday.Petruchio and Katherine exitthrough different doors.GREMIOFTLN 1187Was ever match clapped up so suddenly?BAPTISTAFTLN 1188345Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant’s partFTLN 1189And venture madly on a desperate mart.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1190’Twas a commodity lay fretting by you.FTLN 1191’Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.BAPTISTAFTLN 1192The gain I seek, is quiet in the match.GREMIOFTLN 1193350No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.FTLN 1194But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter.FTLN 1195Now is the day we long have lookèd for.FTLN 1196I am your neighbor and was suitor first.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1197And I am one that love Bianca moreFTLN 1198355Than words can witness or your thoughts can guess.GREMIOFTLN 1199Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1200Graybeard, thy love doth freeze.GREMIOFTLN 1201But thine doth fry!FTLN 1202Skipper, stand back. ’Tis age that nourisheth.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1203360But youth in ladies’ eyes that flourisheth.

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BAPTISTAFTLN 1204Content you, gentlemen. I will compound this strife.FTLN 1205’Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of bothFTLN 1206That can assure my daughter greatest dowerFTLN 1207Shall have my Bianca’s love.FTLN 1208365Say, Signior Gremio, what can you assure her?GREMIOFTLN 1209First, as you know, my house within the cityFTLN 1210Is richly furnishèd with plate and gold,FTLN 1211Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;FTLN 1212My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;FTLN 1213370In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns,FTLN 1214In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,FTLN 1215Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,FTLN 1216Fine linen, Turkey cushions bossed with pearl,FTLN 1217Valance of Venice gold in needlework,FTLN 1218375Pewter and brass, and all things that belongsFTLN 1219To house or housekeeping. Then, at my farmFTLN 1220I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,FTLN 1221Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls,FTLN 1222And all things answerable to this portion.FTLN 1223380Myself am struck in years, I must confess,FTLN 1224And if I die tomorrow this is hers,FTLN 1225If whilst I live she will be only mine.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1226That “only” came well in.To Baptista. Sir, list toFTLN 1227me:FTLN 1228385I am my father’s heir and only son.FTLN 1229If I may have your daughter to my wife,FTLN 1230I’ll leave her houses three or four as good,FTLN 1231Within rich Pisa walls, as any oneFTLN 1232Old Signior Gremio has in Padua,FTLN 1233390Besides two thousand ducats by the yearFTLN 1234Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.—FTLN 1235What, have I pinched you, Signior Gremio?

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GREMIOFTLN 1236Two thousand ducats by the year of land?FTLN 1237Aside.My land amounts not to so much in all.—FTLN 1238395That she shall have, besides an argosyFTLN 1239That now is lying in Marcellus’ road.FTLN 1240To Tranio.What, have I choked you with an argosy?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1241Gremio, ’tis known my father hath no lessFTLN 1242Than three great argosies, besides two galliassesFTLN 1243400And twelve tight galleys. These I will assure her,FTLN 1244And twice as much whate’er thou off’rest next.GREMIOFTLN 1245Nay, I have offered all. I have no more,FTLN 1246And she can have no more than all I have.FTLN 1247To Baptista.If you like me, she shall have me andFTLN 1248405mine.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1249Why, then, the maid is mine from all the world,FTLN 1250By your firm promise. Gremio is outvied.BAPTISTAFTLN 1251I must confess your offer is the best,FTLN 1252And, let your father make her the assurance,FTLN 1253410She is your own; else, you must pardon me.FTLN 1254If you should die before him, where’s her dower?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1255That’s but a cavil. He is old, I young.GREMIOFTLN 1256And may not young men die as well as old?BAPTISTAFTLN 1257Well, gentlemen, I am thus resolved:FTLN 1258415On Sunday next, you knowFTLN 1259My daughter Katherine is to be married.FTLN 1260To Tranio as Lucentio.Now, on the SundayFTLN 1261following, shall BiancaFTLN 1262Be bride to you, if you make this assurance.FTLN 1263420If not, to Signior Gremio.FTLN 1264And so I take my leave, and thank you both.

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GREMIOFTLN 1265Adieu, good neighbor.Baptista exits.FTLN 1266Now I fear thee not.FTLN 1267Sirrah young gamester, your father were a foolFTLN 1268425To give thee all and in his waning ageFTLN 1269Set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy!FTLN 1270An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.Gremio exits.TRANIOFTLN 1271A vengeance on your crafty withered hide!—FTLN 1272Yet I have faced it with a card of ten.FTLN 1273430’Tis in my head to do my master good.FTLN 1274I see no reason but supposed LucentioFTLN 1275Must get a father, called “supposed Vincentio”—FTLN 1276And that’s a wonder. Fathers commonlyFTLN 1277Do get their children. But in this case of wooing,FTLN 1278435A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.He exits.

ACT 3

Scene1

Enter Lucentio as Cambio, Hortensio as Litio, andBianca.

LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 1279Fiddler, forbear. You grow too forward, sir.FTLN 1280Have you so soon forgot the entertainmentFTLN 1281Her sister Katherine welcomed you withal?HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 1282But, wrangling pedant, this isFTLN 12835The patroness of heavenly harmony.FTLN 1284Then give me leave to have prerogative,FTLN 1285And when in music we have spent an hour,FTLN 1286Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 1287Preposterous ass, that never read so farFTLN 128810To know the cause why music was ordained.FTLN 1289Was it not to refresh the mind of manFTLN 1290After his studies or his usual pain?FTLN 1291Then give me leave to read philosophy,FTLN 1292And, while I pause, serve in your harmony.HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 129315Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.BIANCAFTLN 1294Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrongFTLN 1295To strive for that which resteth in my choice.FTLN 1296I am no breeching scholar in the schools.FTLN 1297I’ll not be tied to hours, nor ’pointed times,

FTLN 1329Aside.How fiery and forward our pedant is.FTLN 1330Now for my life the knave doth court my love!FTLN 1331Pedascule, I’ll watch you better yet.BIANCA, to LucentioFTLN 1332In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.LUCENTIOFTLN 133355Mistrust it not, for sure AeacidesFTLN 1334Was Ajax, called so from his grandfather.BIANCAFTLN 1335I must believe my master; else, I promise you,FTLN 1336I should be arguing still upon that doubt.FTLN 1337But let it rest.—Now, Litio, to you.FTLN 133860Good master, take it not unkindly, pray,FTLN 1339That I have been thus pleasant with you both.HORTENSIO, as Litio, to LucentioFTLN 1340You may go walk, and give me leave awhile.FTLN 1341My lessons make no music in three parts.LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 1342Are you so formal, sir? Well, I must waitFTLN 134365Aside.And watch withal, for, but I be deceived,FTLN 1344Our fine musician groweth amorous.He steps aside.HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 1345Madam, before you touch the instrument,FTLN 1346To learn the order of my fingeringFTLN 1347I must begin with rudiments of art,FTLN 134870To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,FTLN 1349More pleasant, pithy, and effectualFTLN 1350Than hath been taught by any of my trade.FTLN 1351And there it is in writing fairly drawn.BIANCAFTLN 1352Why, I am past my gamut long ago.HORTENSIOFTLN 135375Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.Giving her a paper.

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BIANCAreadsFTLN 1354“Gamut I am, the ground of all accord:FTLN 1355Are, to plead Hortensio’s passion;FTLN 1356Bmi, Bianca, take him for thy lord,FTLN 1357Cfa ut, that loves with all affection;FTLN 135880Dsol re, one clef, two notes have I;FTLN 1359Ela mi, show pity or I die.”FTLN 1360Call you this “gamut”? Tut, I like it not.FTLN 1361Old fashions please me best. I am not so niceFTLN 1362To change true rules for odd inventions.

Enter a Servant.

SERVANTFTLN 136385Mistress, your father prays you leave your booksFTLN 1364And help to dress your sister’s chamber up.FTLN 1365You know tomorrow is the wedding day.BIANCAFTLN 1366Farewell, sweet masters both. I must be gone.LUCENTIOFTLN 1367Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay.Bianca, the Servant, and Lucentio exit.HORTENSIOFTLN 136890But I have cause to pry into this pedant.FTLN 1369Methinks he looks as though he were in love.FTLN 1370Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humbleFTLN 1371To cast thy wand’ring eyes on every stale,FTLN 1372Seize thee that list! If once I find thee ranging,FTLN 137395Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.He exits.

BAPTISTA, to TranioFTLN 1374Signior Lucentio, this is the ’pointed day

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FTLN 1375That Katherine and Petruchio should be married,FTLN 1376And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.FTLN 1377What will be said? What mockery will it be,FTLN 13785To want the bridegroom when the priest attendsFTLN 1379To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage?FTLN 1380What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?KATHERINEFTLN 1381No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forcedFTLN 1382To give my hand, opposed against my heart,FTLN 138310Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen,FTLN 1384Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure.FTLN 1385I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,FTLN 1386Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior,FTLN 1387And, to be noted for a merry man,FTLN 138815He’ll woo a thousand, ’point the day of marriage,FTLN 1389Make friends, invite, and proclaim the banns,FTLN 1390Yet never means to wed where he hath wooed.FTLN 1391Now must the world point at poor KatherineFTLN 1392And say “Lo, there is mad Petruchio’s wife,FTLN 139320If it would please him come and marry her.”TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1394Patience, good Katherine, and Baptista too.FTLN 1395Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,FTLN 1396Whatever fortune stays him from his word.FTLN 1397Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;FTLN 139825Though he be merry, yet withal he’s honest.KATHERINEFTLN 1399Would Katherine had never seen him, though!She exits weeping.BAPTISTAFTLN 1400Go, girl. I cannot blame thee now to weep,FTLN 1401For such an injury would vex a very saint,FTLN 1402Much more a shrew of thy impatient humor.

Enter Biondello.

BIONDELLOFTLN 140330Master, master, news! And such oldFTLN 1404news as you never heard of!

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BAPTISTAFTLN 1405Is it new and old too? How may that be?BIONDELLOFTLN 1406Why, is it not news to hear of Petruchio’sFTLN 1407coming?BAPTISTAFTLN 140835Is he come?BIONDELLOFTLN 1409Why, no, sir.BAPTISTAFTLN 1410What then?BIONDELLOFTLN 1411He is coming.BAPTISTAFTLN 1412When will he be here?BIONDELLOFTLN 141340When he stands where I am, and sees you there.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1414But say, what to thine old news?BIONDELLOFTLN 1415Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat andFTLN 1416an old jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned,FTLN 1417a pair of boots that have been candle-cases, oneFTLN 141845buckled, another laced; an old rusty sword ta’enFTLN 1419out of the town armory, with a broken hilt, andFTLN 1420chapeless; with two broken points; his horseFTLN 1421hipped, with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of noFTLN 1422kindred, besides possessed with the glanders andFTLN 142350like to mose in the chine, troubled with the lampass,FTLN 1424infected with the fashions, full of windgalls,FTLN 1425sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows, past cureFTLN 1426of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawnFTLN 1427with the bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten,FTLN 142855near-legged before, and with a half-checkedFTLN 1429bit and a headstall of sheep’s leather,FTLN 1430which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling,FTLN 1431hath been often burst, and now repaired withFTLN 1432knots; one girth six times pieced, and a woman’sFTLN 143360crupper of velour, which hath two letters for herFTLN 1434name fairly set down in studs, and here and thereFTLN 1435pieced with packthread.BAPTISTAFTLN 1436Who comes with him?

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BIONDELLOFTLN 1437Oh, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisonedFTLN 143865like the horse: with a linen stock on one legFTLN 1439and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered withFTLN 1440a red and blue list; an old hat, and the humor ofFTLN 1441forty fancies pricked in ’t for a feather. A monster,FTLN 1442a very monster in apparel, and not like a ChristianFTLN 144370footboy or a gentleman’s lackey.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1444’Tis some odd humor pricks him to this fashion,FTLN 1445Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-appareled.BAPTISTAFTLN 1446I am glad he’s come, howsoe’er he comes.BIONDELLOFTLN 1447Why, sir, he comes not.BAPTISTAFTLN 144875Didst thou not say he comes?BIONDELLOFTLN 1449Who? That Petruchio came?BAPTISTAFTLN 1450Ay, that Petruchio came!BIONDELLOFTLN 1451No, sir, I say his horse comes with him onFTLN 1452his back.BAPTISTAFTLN 145380Why, that’s all one.BIONDELLOFTLN 1454Nay, by Saint Jamy.FTLN 1455I hold you a penny,FTLN 1456A horse and a manFTLN 1457Is more than one,FTLN 145885And yet not many.

Enter Petruchio and Grumio.

PETRUCHIOFTLN 1459Come, where be these gallants? Who’s at home?BAPTISTAFTLN 1460You are welcome, sir.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1461And yet I come not well.BAPTISTAFTLN 1462And yet you halt not.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 146390Not so well appareled as I wishFTLN 1464you were.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1465Were it better I should rush in thus—

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FTLN 1466But where is Kate? Where is my lovely bride?FTLN 1467How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown.FTLN 146895And wherefore gaze this goodly companyFTLN 1469As if they saw some wondrous monument,FTLN 1470Some comet or unusual prodigy?BAPTISTAFTLN 1471Why, sir, you know this is your wedding day.FTLN 1472First were we sad, fearing you would not come,FTLN 1473100Now sadder that you come so unprovided.FTLN 1474Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,FTLN 1475An eyesore to our solemn festival.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1476And tell us what occasion of importFTLN 1477Hath all so long detained you from your wifeFTLN 1478105And sent you hither so unlike yourself.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1479Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear.FTLN 1480Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,FTLN 1481Though in some part enforcèd to digress,FTLN 1482Which at more leisure I will so excuseFTLN 1483110As you shall well be satisfied with all.FTLN 1484But where is Kate? I stay too long from her.FTLN 1485The morning wears. ’Tis time we were at church.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1486See not your bride in these unreverent robes.FTLN 1487Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1488115Not I, believe me. Thus I’ll visit her.BAPTISTAFTLN 1489But thus, I trust, you will not marry her.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1490Good sooth, even thus. Therefore, ha’ done withFTLN 1491words.FTLN 1492To me she’s married, not unto my clothes.FTLN 1493120Could I repair what she will wear in me,FTLN 1494As I can change these poor accoutrements,

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FTLN 1495’Twere well for Kate and better for myself.FTLN 1496But what a fool am I to chat with youFTLN 1497When I should bid good morrow to my brideFTLN 1498125And seal the title with a lovely kiss!Petruchio exits, with Grumio.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1499He hath some meaning in his mad attire.FTLN 1500We will persuade him, be it possible,FTLN 1501To put on better ere he go to church.BAPTISTAFTLN 1502I’ll after him, and see the event of this.All except Tranio and Lucentio exit.TRANIOFTLN 1503130But, sir, to love concerneth us to addFTLN 1504Her father’s liking, which to bring to pass,FTLN 1505As I before imparted to your Worship,FTLN 1506I am to get a man (whate’er he beFTLN 1507It skills not much, we’ll fit him to our turn),FTLN 1508135And he shall be “Vincentio of Pisa,”FTLN 1509And make assurance here in PaduaFTLN 1510Of greater sums than I have promisèd.FTLN 1511So shall you quietly enjoy your hopeFTLN 1512And marry sweet Bianca with consent.LUCENTIOFTLN 1513140Were it not that my fellow schoolmasterFTLN 1514Doth watch Bianca’s steps so narrowly,FTLN 1515’Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage,FTLN 1516Which, once performed, let all the world say no,FTLN 1517I’ll keep mine own despite of all the world.TRANIOFTLN 1518145That by degrees we mean to look into,FTLN 1519And watch our vantage in this business.FTLN 1520We’ll overreach the graybeard, Gremio,FTLN 1521The narrow prying father, Minola,FTLN 1522The quaint musician, amorous Litio,FTLN 1523150All for my master’s sake, Lucentio.

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Enter Gremio.

TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1524Signior Gremio, came you from the church?GREMIOFTLN 1525As willingly as e’er I came from school.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1526And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?GREMIOFTLN 1527A bridegroom, say you? ’Tis a groom indeed,FTLN 1528155A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1529Curster than she? Why, ’tis impossible.GREMIOFTLN 1530Why, he’s a devil, a devil, a very fiend.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1531Why, she’s a devil, a devil, the devil’s dam.GREMIOFTLN 1532Tut, she’s a lamb, a dove, a fool to him.FTLN 1533160I’ll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priestFTLN 1534Should ask if Katherine should be his wife,FTLN 1535“Ay, by gog’s wouns!” quoth he, and swore so loudFTLN 1536That, all amazed, the priest let fall the book,FTLN 1537And as he stooped again to take it up,FTLN 1538165This mad-brained bridegroom took him such a cuffFTLN 1539That down fell priest and book, and book and priest.FTLN 1540“Now, take them up,” quoth he, “if any list.”TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1541What said the wench when he rose again?GREMIOFTLN 1542Trembled and shook, for why he stamped and sworeFTLN 1543170As if the vicar meant to cozen him.FTLN 1544But after many ceremonies done,FTLN 1545He calls for wine. “A health!” quoth he, as ifFTLN 1546He had been aboard, carousing to his matesFTLN 1547After a storm; quaffed off the muscatel

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FTLN 1548175And threw the sops all in the sexton’s face,FTLN 1549Having no other reasonFTLN 1550But that his beard grew thin and hungerly,FTLN 1551And seemed to ask him sops as he was drinking.FTLN 1552This done, he took the bride about the neckFTLN 1553180And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smackFTLN 1554That at the parting all the church did echo.FTLN 1555And I, seeing this, came thence for very shame,FTLN 1556And after me I know the rout is coming.FTLN 1557Such a mad marriage never was before!Music plays.FTLN 1558185Hark, hark, I hear the minstrels play.

PETRUCHIOFTLN 1559Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains.FTLN 1560I know you think to dine with me todayFTLN 1561And have prepared great store of wedding cheer,FTLN 1562But so it is, my haste doth call me hence,FTLN 1563190And therefore here I mean to take my leave.BAPTISTAFTLN 1564Is ’t possible you will away tonight?PETRUCHIOFTLN 1565I must away today, before night come.FTLN 1566Make it no wonder. If you knew my business,FTLN 1567You would entreat me rather go than stay.FTLN 1568195And, honest company, I thank you all,FTLN 1569That have beheld me give away myselfFTLN 1570To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife.FTLN 1571Dine with my father, drink a health to me,FTLN 1572For I must hence, and farewell to you all.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1573200Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1574It may not be.GREMIOFTLN 1575Let me entreat you.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1576It cannot be.

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KATHERINEFTLN 1577Let me entreat you.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1578205I am content.KATHERINEFTLN 1579Are you content to stay?PETRUCHIOFTLN 1580I am content you shall entreat me stay,FTLN 1581But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.KATHERINEFTLN 1582Now, if you love me, stay.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1583210Grumio, my horse.GRUMIOFTLN 1584Ay, sir, they be ready; the oats have eaten theFTLN 1585horses.KATHERINEFTLN 1586Nay, then,FTLN 1587Do what thou canst, I will not go today,FTLN 1588215No, nor tomorrow, not till I please myself.FTLN 1589The door is open, sir. There lies your way.FTLN 1590You may be jogging whiles your boots are green.FTLN 1591For me, I’ll not be gone till I please myself.FTLN 1592’Tis like you’ll prove a jolly surly groom,FTLN 1593220That take it on you at the first so roundly.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1594O Kate, content thee. Prithee, be not angry.KATHERINEFTLN 1595I will be angry. What hast thou to do?—FTLN 1596Father, be quiet. He shall stay my leisure.GREMIOFTLN 1597Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.KATHERINEFTLN 1598225Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.FTLN 1599I see a woman may be made a foolFTLN 1600If she had not a spirit to resist.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1601They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.—FTLN 1602Obey the bride, you that attend on her.FTLN 1603230Go to the feast, revel and domineer,FTLN 1604Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,

GRUMIOFTLN 1635Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters,FTLN 1636and all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? WasFTLN 1637ever man so ’rayed? Was ever man so weary? I amFTLN 1638sent before to make a fire, and they are comingFTLN 16395after to warm them. Now were not I a little pot andFTLN 1640soon hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth, myFTLN 1641tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in myFTLN 1642belly, ere I should come by a fire to thaw me. But IFTLN 1643with blowing the fire shall warm myself. For, consideringFTLN 164410the weather, a taller man than I will takeFTLN 1645cold.—Holla, ho, Curtis!

Enter Curtis.

CURTISFTLN 1646Who is that calls so coldly?GRUMIOFTLN 1647A piece of ice. If thou doubt it, thou maystFTLN 1648slide from my shoulder to my heel with no greaterFTLN 164915a run but my head and my neck. A fire, good Curtis!CURTISFTLN 1650Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?GRUMIOFTLN 1651Oh, ay, Curtis, ay, and therefore fire, fire! CastFTLN 1652on no water.CURTISFTLN 1653Is she so hot a shrew as she’s reported?GRUMIOFTLN 165420She was, good Curtis, before this frost. ButFTLN 1655thou know’st winter tames man, woman, and

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FTLN 1656beast, for it hath tamed my old master and my newFTLN 1657mistress and myself, fellow Curtis.CURTISFTLN 1658Away, you three-inch fool, I am no beast!GRUMIOFTLN 165925Am I but three inches? Why, thy horn is aFTLN 1660foot, and so long am I, at the least. But wilt thouFTLN 1661make a fire? Or shall I complain on thee to ourFTLN 1662mistress, whose hand (she being now at hand) thouFTLN 1663shalt soon feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow inFTLN 166430thy hot office?CURTISFTLN 1665I prithee, good Grumio, tell me, how goes theFTLN 1666world?GRUMIOFTLN 1667A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine,FTLN 1668and therefore fire! Do thy duty, and have thy duty,FTLN 166935for my master and mistress are almost frozen toFTLN 1670death.CURTISFTLN 1671There’s fire ready. And therefore, good Grumio,FTLN 1672the news!GRUMIOFTLN 1673Why, “Jack boy, ho boy!” and as much newsFTLN 167440as wilt thou.CURTISFTLN 1675Come, you are so full of cony-catching.GRUMIOFTLN 1676Why, therefore fire, for I have caught extremeFTLN 1677cold. Where’s the cook? Is supper ready, the houseFTLN 1678trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the servingmenFTLN 167945in their new fustian, their white stockings,FTLN 1680and every officer his wedding garment on? BeFTLN 1681the Jacks fair within, the Jills fair without, theFTLN 1682carpets laid, and everything in order?CURTISFTLN 1683All ready. And therefore, I pray thee, news.GRUMIOFTLN 168450First, know my horse is tired, my master andFTLN 1685mistress fallen out.CURTISFTLN 1686How?GRUMIOFTLN 1687Out of their saddles into the dirt, and therebyFTLN 1688hangs a tale.CURTISFTLN 168955Let’s ha’ t, good Grumio.GRUMIOFTLN 1690Lend thine ear.CURTISFTLN 1691Here.

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GRUMIOFTLN 1692There!He slaps Curtis on the ear.CURTISFTLN 1693This ’tis to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.GRUMIOFTLN 169460And therefore ’tis called a sensible tale. AndFTLN 1695this cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseechFTLN 1696list’ning. Now I begin: Imprimis, we came down aFTLN 1697foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress—CURTISFTLN 1698Both of one horse?GRUMIOFTLN 169965What’s that to thee?CURTISFTLN 1700Why, a horse.GRUMIOFTLN 1701Tell thou the tale! But hadst thou not crossedFTLN 1702me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell,FTLN 1703and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heardFTLN 170470in how miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how heFTLN 1705left her with the horse upon her, how he beat meFTLN 1706because her horse stumbled, how she wadedFTLN 1707through the dirt to pluck him off me, how he swore,FTLN 1708how she prayed that never prayed before, how IFTLN 170975cried, how the horses ran away, how her bridle wasFTLN 1710burst, how I lost my crupper, with many things ofFTLN 1711worthy memory which now shall die in oblivion,FTLN 1712and thou return unexperienced to thy grave.CURTISFTLN 1713By this reck’ning, he is more shrew than she.GRUMIOFTLN 171480Ay, and that thou and the proudest of you allFTLN 1715shall find when he comes home. But what talk I ofFTLN 1716this? Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Phillip,FTLN 1717Walter, Sugarsop, and the rest. Let their headsFTLN 1718be slickly combed, their blue coats brushed, andFTLN 171985their garters of an indifferent knit. Let them curtsyFTLN 1720with their left legs, and not presume to touch a hairFTLN 1721of my master’s horse-tail till they kiss their hands.FTLN 1722Are they all ready?CURTISFTLN 1723They are.GRUMIOFTLN 172490Call them forth.CURTIS, calling outFTLN 1725Do you hear, ho? You must meetFTLN 1726my master to countenance my mistress.GRUMIOFTLN 1727Why, she hath a face of her own.

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CURTISFTLN 1728Who knows not that?GRUMIOFTLN 172995Thou, it seems, that calls for company toFTLN 1730countenance her.CURTISFTLN 1731I call them forth to credit her.GRUMIOFTLN 1732Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.

FTLN 1757Did I not bid thee meet me in the parkFTLN 1758And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?GRUMIOFTLN 1759125Nathaniel’s coat, sir, was not fully made,FTLN 1760And Gabriel’s pumps were all unpinked i’ th’ heel.FTLN 1761There was no link to color Peter’s hat,FTLN 1762And Walter’s dagger was not come from sheathing.FTLN 1763There were none fine but Adam, Rafe, and Gregory.FTLN 1764130The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly.FTLN 1765Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1766Go, rascals, go, and fetch my supper in!The Servants exit.Sings.FTLN 1767Where is the life that late I led?FTLN 1768Where are those—FTLN 1769135Sit down, Kate, and welcome.They sit at a table.FTLN 1770Soud, soud, soud, soud!

Enter Servants with supper.

FTLN 1771Why, when, I say?—Nay, good sweet Kate, beFTLN 1772merry.—FTLN 1773Off with my boots, you rogues, you villains! When?Sings.FTLN 1774140It was the friar of orders gray,FTLN 1775As he forth walkèd on his way—

FTLN 1782One, Kate, that you must kiss and be acquaintedFTLN 1783with.—FTLN 1784150Where are my slippers? Shall I have some water?—FTLN 1785Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.—FTLN 1786You whoreson villain, will you let it fall?He hits the Servant.KATHERINEFTLN 1787Patience, I pray you, ’twas a fault unwilling.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1788A whoreson beetle-headed flap-eared knave!—FTLN 1789155Come, Kate, sit down. I know you have a stomach.FTLN 1790Will you give thanks, sweet Kate, or else shall I?—FTLN 1791What’s this? Mutton?FIRST SERVANTFTLN 1792Ay.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1793Who brought it?PETERFTLN 1794160I.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1795’Tis burnt, and so is all the meat.FTLN 1796What dogs are these? Where is the rascal cook?FTLN 1797How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresserFTLN 1798And serve it thus to me that love it not?FTLN 1799165There, take it to you, trenchers, cups, and all!He throws the food and dishes at them.FTLN 1800You heedless joltheads and unmannered slaves!FTLN 1801What, do you grumble? I’ll be with you straight.The Servants exit.KATHERINEFTLN 1802I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet.FTLN 1803The meat was well, if you were so contented.PETRUCHIOFTLN 1804170I tell thee, Kate, ’twas burnt and dried away,FTLN 1805And I expressly am forbid to touch it,FTLN 1806For it engenders choler, planteth anger,FTLN 1807And better ’twere that both of us did fastFTLN 1808(Since of ourselves, ourselves are choleric)FTLN 1809175Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.FTLN 1810Be patient. Tomorrow ’t shall be mended,

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FTLN 1811And for this night we’ll fast for company.FTLN 1812Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber.They exit.

Enter Servants severally.

NATHANIELFTLN 1813Peter, didst ever see the like?PETERFTLN 1814180He kills her in her own humor.

Enter Curtis.

GRUMIOFTLN 1815Where is he?CURTISFTLN 1816In her chamber,FTLN 1817Making a sermon of continency to her,FTLN 1818And rails and swears and rates, that she (poor soul)FTLN 1819185Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak,FTLN 1820And sits as one new-risen from a dream.FTLN 1821Away, away, for he is coming hither!The Servants exit.

Enter Petruchio.

PETRUCHIOFTLN 1822Thus have I politicly begun my reign,FTLN 1823And ’tis my hope to end successfully.FTLN 1824190My falcon now is sharp and passing empty,FTLN 1825And, till she stoop, she must not be full-gorged,FTLN 1826For then she never looks upon her lure.FTLN 1827Another way I have to man my haggard,FTLN 1828To make her come and know her keeper’s call.FTLN 1829195That is, to watch her, as we watch these kitesFTLN 1830That bate and beat and will not be obedient.FTLN 1831She ate no meat today, nor none shall eat.FTLN 1832Last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not.FTLN 1833As with the meat, some undeservèd faultFTLN 1834200I’ll find about the making of the bed,FTLN 1835And here I’ll fling the pillow, there the bolster,FTLN 1836This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.FTLN 1837Ay, and amid this hurly I intend

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FTLN 1838That all is done in reverend care of her.FTLN 1839205And, in conclusion, she shall watch all night,FTLN 1840And, if she chance to nod, I’ll rail and brawl,FTLN 1841And with the clamor keep her still awake.FTLN 1842This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.FTLN 1843And thus I’ll curb her mad and headstrong humor.FTLN 1844210He that knows better how to tame a shrew,FTLN 1845Now let him speak; ’tis charity to shew.He exits.

Scene2

Enter Tranio as Lucentio and Hortensio as Litio.

TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1846Is ’t possible, friend Litio, that mistress BiancaFTLN 1847Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?FTLN 1848I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 1849Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,FTLN 18505Stand by, and mark the manner of his teaching.They stand aside.

Enter Bianca and Lucentio as Cambio.

LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 1851Now mistress, profit you in what you read?BIANCAFTLN 1852What, master, read you? First resolve me that.LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 1853I read that I profess, The Art to Love.BIANCAFTLN 1854And may you prove, sir, master of your art.LUCENTIO, as CambioFTLN 185510While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart.They move aside and kiss and talk.HORTENSIO, as LitioFTLN 1856Quick proceeders, marry! Now tell me, I pray,

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FTLN 1857You that durst swear that your mistress BiancaFTLN 1858Loved none in the world so well as Lucentio.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1859O despiteful love, unconstant womankind!FTLN 186015I tell thee, Litio, this is wonderful!HORTENSIOFTLN 1861Mistake no more. I am not Litio,FTLN 1862Nor a musician as I seem to be,FTLN 1863But one that scorn to live in this disguiseFTLN 1864For such a one as leaves a gentlemanFTLN 186520And makes a god of such a cullion.FTLN 1866Know, sir, that I am called Hortensio.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1867Signior Hortensio, I have often heardFTLN 1868Of your entire affection to Bianca,FTLN 1869And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,FTLN 187025I will with you, if you be so contented,FTLN 1871Forswear Bianca and her love forever.HORTENSIOFTLN 1872See how they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio,FTLN 1873Here is my hand, and here I firmly vowFTLN 1874Never to woo her more, but do forswear herFTLN 187530As one unworthy all the former favorsFTLN 1876That I have fondly flattered her withal.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1877And here I take the like unfeignèd oath,FTLN 1878Never to marry with her, though she would entreat.FTLN 1879Fie on her, see how beastly she doth court him!HORTENSIOFTLN 188035Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!FTLN 1881For me, that I may surely keep mine oath,FTLN 1882I will be married to a wealthy widowFTLN 1883Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved meFTLN 1884As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.FTLN 188540And so farewell, Signior Lucentio.FTLN 1886Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,

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FTLN 1887Shall win my love, and so I take my leave,FTLN 1888In resolution as I swore before.Hortensio exits;Bianca and Lucentio come forward.TRANIOFTLN 1889Mistress Bianca, bless you with such graceFTLN 189045As ’longeth to a lover’s blessèd case!FTLN 1891Nay, I have ta’en you napping, gentle love,FTLN 1892And have forsworn you with Hortensio.BIANCAFTLN 1893Tranio, you jest. But have you both forsworn me?TRANIOFTLN 1894Mistress, we have.LUCENTIOFTLN 189550Then we are rid of Litio.TRANIOFTLN 1896I’ faith, he’ll have a lusty widow nowFTLN 1897That shall be wooed and wedded in a day.BIANCAFTLN 1898God give him joy.TRANIOFTLN 1899Ay, and he’ll tame her.BIANCAFTLN 190055He says so, Tranio?TRANIOFTLN 1901Faith, he is gone unto the taming school.BIANCAFTLN 1902The taming school? What, is there such a place?TRANIOFTLN 1903Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master,FTLN 1904That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty longFTLN 190560To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.

Enter Biondello.

BIONDELLOFTLN 1906O master, master, I have watched so longFTLN 1907That I am dog-weary, but at last I spiedFTLN 1908An ancient angel coming down the hillFTLN 1909Will serve the turn.

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TRANIOFTLN 191065What is he, Biondello?BIONDELLOFTLN 1911Master, a marcantant, or a pedant,FTLN 1912I know not what, but formal in apparel,FTLN 1913In gait and countenance surely like a father.LUCENTIOFTLN 1914And what of him, Tranio?TRANIOFTLN 191570If he be credulous, and trust my tale,FTLN 1916I’ll make him glad to seem VincentioFTLN 1917And give assurance to Baptista MinolaFTLN 1918As if he were the right Vincentio.FTLN 1919Take in your love, and then let me alone.Lucentio and Bianca exit.

Enter a Merchant.

MERCHANTFTLN 192075God save you, sir.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1921And you, sir. You are welcome.FTLN 1922Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?MERCHANTFTLN 1923Sir, at the farthest for a week or two,FTLN 1924But then up farther, and as far as Rome,FTLN 192580And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1926What countryman, I pray?MERCHANTFTLN 1927Of Mantua.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1928Of Mantua, sir? Marry, God forbid!FTLN 1929And come to Padua, careless of your life?MERCHANTFTLN 193085My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1931’Tis death for anyone in MantuaFTLN 1932To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?FTLN 1933Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke,FTLN 1934For private quarrel ’twixt your duke and him,

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FTLN 193590Hath published and proclaimed it openly.FTLN 1936’Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come,FTLN 1937You might have heard it else proclaimed about.MERCHANTFTLN 1938Alas, sir, it is worse for me than so,FTLN 1939For I have bills for money by exchangeFTLN 194095From Florence, and must here deliver them.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1941Well, sir, to do you courtesy,FTLN 1942This will I do, and this I will advise you.FTLN 1943First tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?MERCHANTFTLN 1944Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,FTLN 1945100Pisa renownèd for grave citizens.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1946Among them know you one Vincentio?MERCHANTFTLN 1947I know him not, but I have heard of him:FTLN 1948A merchant of incomparable wealth.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1949He is my father, sir, and sooth to say,FTLN 1950105In count’nance somewhat doth resemble you.BIONDELLO, asideFTLN 1951As much as an apple doth anFTLN 1952oyster, and all one.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1953To save your life in this extremity,FTLN 1954This favor will I do you for his sakeFTLN 1955110(And think it not the worst of all your fortunesFTLN 1956That you are like to Sir Vincentio):FTLN 1957His name and credit shall you undertake,FTLN 1958And in my house you shall be friendly lodged.FTLN 1959Look that you take upon you as you should.FTLN 1960115You understand me, sir. So shall you stayFTLN 1961Till you have done your business in the city.FTLN 1962If this be court’sy, sir, accept of it.

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MERCHANTFTLN 1963O sir, I do, and will repute you everFTLN 1964The patron of my life and liberty.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 1965120Then go with me, to make the matter good.FTLN 1966This, by the way, I let you understand:FTLN 1967My father is here looked for every dayFTLN 1968To pass assurance of a dower in marriageFTLN 1969’Twixt me and one Baptista’s daughter here.FTLN 1970125In all these circumstances I’ll instruct you.FTLN 1971Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.They exit.

Scene3

Enter Katherine and Grumio.

GRUMIOFTLN 1972No, no, forsooth, I dare not for my life.KATHERINEFTLN 1973The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.FTLN 1974What, did he marry me to famish me?FTLN 1975Beggars that come unto my father’s doorFTLN 19765Upon entreaty have a present alms.FTLN 1977If not, elsewhere they meet with charity.FTLN 1978But I, who never knew how to entreat,FTLN 1979Nor never needed that I should entreat,FTLN 1980Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,FTLN 198110With oaths kept waking and with brawling fed.FTLN 1982And that which spites me more than all these wants,FTLN 1983He does it under name of perfect love,FTLN 1984As who should say, if I should sleep or eatFTLN 1985’Twere deadly sickness or else present death.FTLN 198615I prithee, go, and get me some repast,FTLN 1987I care not what, so it be wholesome food.GRUMIOFTLN 1988What say you to a neat’s foot?

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KATHERINEFTLN 1989’Tis passing good. I prithee let me have it.GRUMIOFTLN 1990I fear it is too choleric a meat.FTLN 199120How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?KATHERINEFTLN 1992I like it well. Good Grumio, fetch it me.GRUMIOFTLN 1993I cannot tell. I fear ’tis choleric.FTLN 1994What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?KATHERINEFTLN 1995A dish that I do love to feed upon.GRUMIOFTLN 199625Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.KATHERINEFTLN 1997Why then, the beef, and let the mustard rest.GRUMIOFTLN 1998Nay then, I will not. You shall have the mustardFTLN 1999Or else you get no beef of Grumio.KATHERINEFTLN 2000Then both, or one, or any thing thou wilt.GRUMIOFTLN 200130Why then, the mustard without the beef.KATHERINEFTLN 2002Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,She beats him.FTLN 2003That feed’st me with the very name of meat.FTLN 2004Sorrow on thee, and all the pack of youFTLN 2005That triumph thus upon my misery.FTLN 200635Go, get thee gone, I say.

FTLN 2035Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments.FTLN 203665Lay forth the gown.

Enter Haberdasher.

FTLN 2037What news with you, sir?

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HABERDASHERFTLN 2038Here is the cap your Worship did bespeak.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2039Why, this was molded on a porringer!FTLN 2040A velvet dish! Fie, fie, ’tis lewd and filthy.FTLN 204170Why, ’tis a cockle or a walnut shell,FTLN 2042A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap.FTLN 2043Away with it! Come, let me have a bigger.KATHERINEFTLN 2044I’ll have no bigger. This doth fit the time,FTLN 2045And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.PETRUCHIOFTLN 204675When you are gentle, you shall have one too,FTLN 2047And not till then.HORTENSIO, asideFTLN 2048That will not be in haste.KATHERINEFTLN 2049Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,FTLN 2050And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.FTLN 205180Your betters have endured me say my mind,FTLN 2052And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.FTLN 2053My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,FTLN 2054Or else my heart, concealing it, will break,FTLN 2055And, rather than it shall, I will be freeFTLN 205685Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2057Why, thou sayst true. It is a paltry cap,FTLN 2058A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie.FTLN 2059I love thee well in that thou lik’st it not.KATHERINEFTLN 2060Love me, or love me not, I like the cap,FTLN 206190And it I will have, or I will have none.Exit Haberdasher.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2062Thy gown? Why, ay. Come, tailor, let us see ’t.FTLN 2063O mercy God, what masking-stuff is here?

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FTLN 2064What’s this? A sleeve? ’Tis like a demi-cannon.FTLN 2065What, up and down carved like an apple tart?FTLN 206695Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,FTLN 2067Like to a censer in a barber’s shop.FTLN 2068Why, what a devil’s name, tailor, call’st thou this?HORTENSIO, asideFTLN 2069I see she’s like to have neither cap nor gown.TAILORFTLN 2070You bid me make it orderly and well,FTLN 2071100According to the fashion and the time.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2072Marry, and did. But if you be remembered,FTLN 2073I did not bid you mar it to the time.FTLN 2074Go, hop me over every kennel home,FTLN 2075For you shall hop without my custom, sir.FTLN 2076105I’ll none of it. Hence, make your best of it.KATHERINEFTLN 2077I never saw a better-fashioned gown,FTLN 2078More quaint, more pleasing, nor moreFTLN 2079commendable.FTLN 2080Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2081110Why, true, he means to make a puppet of thee.TAILORFTLN 2082She says your Worship means to make a puppet ofFTLN 2083her.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2084O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread,FTLN 2085thou thimble,FTLN 2086115Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!FTLN 2087Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket, thou!FTLN 2088Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread?FTLN 2089Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant,FTLN 2090Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yardFTLN 2091120As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv’st.FTLN 2092I tell thee, I, that thou hast marred her gown.

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TAILORFTLN 2093Your Worship is deceived. The gown is madeFTLN 2094Just as my master had direction.FTLN 2095Grumio gave order how it should be done.GRUMIOFTLN 2096125I gave him no order. I gave him the stuff.TAILORFTLN 2097But how did you desire it should be made?GRUMIOFTLN 2098Marry, sir, with needle and thread.TAILORFTLN 2099But did you not request to have it cut?GRUMIOFTLN 2100Thou hast faced many things.TAILORFTLN 2101130I have.GRUMIOFTLN 2102Face not me. Thou hast braved many men;FTLN 2103brave not me. I will neither be faced nor braved. IFTLN 2104say unto thee, I bid thy master cut out the gown,FTLN 2105but I did not bid him cut it to pieces. Ergo, thouFTLN 2106135liest.TAILORFTLN 2107Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify.He shows a paper.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2108Read it.GRUMIOFTLN 2109The note lies in ’s throat, if he say I said so.TAILORreadsFTLN 2110“Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown—”GRUMIOFTLN 2111140Master, if ever I said “loose-bodied gown,”FTLN 2112sew me in the skirts of it and beat me to death withFTLN 2113a bottom of brown thread. I said “a gown.”PETRUCHIOFTLN 2114Proceed.TAILORreadsFTLN 2115“With a small-compassed cape—”GRUMIOFTLN 2116145I confess the cape.TAILORreadsFTLN 2117“With a trunk sleeve—”GRUMIOFTLN 2118I confess two sleeves.TAILORreadsFTLN 2119“The sleeves curiously cut.”PETRUCHIOFTLN 2120Ay, there’s the villainy.GRUMIOFTLN 2121150Error i’ th’ bill, sir, error i’ th’ bill! I commandedFTLN 2122the sleeves should be cut out and sewedFTLN 2123up again, and that I’ll prove upon thee, though thyFTLN 2124little finger be armed in a thimble.

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TAILORFTLN 2125This is true that I say. An I had thee in placeFTLN 2126155where, thou shouldst know it.GRUMIOFTLN 2127I am for thee straight. Take thou the bill, giveFTLN 2128me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.HORTENSIOFTLN 2129God-a-mercy, Grumio, then he shall haveFTLN 2130no odds.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2131160Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.GRUMIOFTLN 2132You are i’ th’ right, sir, ’tis for my mistress.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2133Go, take it up unto thy master’s use.GRUMIOFTLN 2134Villain, not for thy life! Take up my mistress’FTLN 2135gown for thy master’s use!PETRUCHIOFTLN 2136165Why, sir, what’s your conceit in that?GRUMIOFTLN 2137O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you thinkFTLN 2138for. Take up my mistress’ gown to his master’s use!FTLN 2139O, fie, fie, fie!PETRUCHIO, aside to HortensioFTLN 2140Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.FTLN 2141170To Tailor.Go, take it hence. Begone, and say noFTLN 2142more.HORTENSIO, aside to TailorFTLN 2143Tailor, I’ll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow.FTLN 2144Take no unkindness of his hasty words.FTLN 2145Away, I say. Commend me to thy master.Tailor exits.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2146175Well, come, my Kate, we will unto your father’s,FTLN 2147Even in these honest mean habiliments.FTLN 2148Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor,FTLN 2149For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich,FTLN 2150And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,FTLN 2151180So honor peereth in the meanest habit.FTLN 2152What, is the jay more precious than the larkFTLN 2153Because his feathers are more beautiful?FTLN 2154Or is the adder better than the eel

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FTLN 2155Because his painted skin contents the eye?FTLN 2156185O no, good Kate. Neither art thou the worseFTLN 2157For this poor furniture and mean array.FTLN 2158If thou account’st it shame, lay it on me,FTLN 2159And therefore frolic! We will hence forthwithFTLN 2160To feast and sport us at thy father’s house.FTLN 2161190To Grumio.Go, call my men, and let us straight toFTLN 2162him,FTLN 2163And bring our horses unto Long-lane end.FTLN 2164There will we mount, and thither walk on foot.FTLN 2165Let’s see, I think ’tis now some seven o’clock,FTLN 2166195And well we may come there by dinner time.KATHERINEFTLN 2167I dare assure you, sir, ’tis almost two,FTLN 2168And ’twill be supper time ere you come there.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2169It shall be seven ere I go to horse.FTLN 2170Look what I speak, or do, or think to do,FTLN 2171200You are still crossing it.—Sirs, let ’t alone.FTLN 2172I will not go today, and, ere I do,FTLN 2173It shall be what o’clock I say it is.HORTENSIO, asideFTLN 2174Why, so, this gallant will command the sun!They exit.

Scene4

Enter Tranio as Lucentio, and the Merchant, booted,and dressed like Vincentio.

TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2175Sir, this is the house. Please it you that I call?MERCHANTFTLN 2176Ay, what else? And but I be deceived,FTLN 2177Signior Baptista may remember me,FTLN 2178Near twenty years ago, in Genoa,FTLN 21795Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.

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TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2180’Tis well. And hold your own in any caseFTLN 2181With such austerity as ’longeth to a father.MERCHANTFTLN 2182I warrant you.

Enter Biondello.

FTLN 2183But, sir, here comes your boy.FTLN 218410’Twere good he were schooled.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2185Fear you not him.—Sirrah Biondello,FTLN 2186Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.FTLN 2187Imagine ’twere the right Vincentio.BIONDELLOFTLN 2188Tut, fear not me.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 218915But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?BIONDELLOFTLN 2190I told him that your father was at Venice,FTLN 2191And that you looked for him this day in Padua.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2192Thou ’rt a tall fellow. Hold thee that to drink.He gives him money.

Enter Baptista and Lucentio as Cambio.

FTLN 2193Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, sir.Merchant stands bareheaded.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 219420Signior Baptista, you are happily met.—FTLN 2195Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of.FTLN 2196I pray you stand good father to me now.FTLN 2197Give me Bianca for my patrimony.MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 2198Soft, son.—FTLN 219925Sir, by your leave, having come to PaduaFTLN 2200To gather in some debts, my son LucentioFTLN 2201Made me acquainted with a weighty causeFTLN 2202Of love between your daughter and himself.

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FTLN 2203And, for the good report I hear of you,FTLN 220430And for the love he beareth to your daughterFTLN 2205And she to him, to stay him not too long,FTLN 2206I am content, in a good father’s care,FTLN 2207To have him matched. And if you please to likeFTLN 2208No worse than I, upon some agreementFTLN 220935Me shall you find ready and willingFTLN 2210With one consent to have her so bestowed,FTLN 2211For curious I cannot be with you,FTLN 2212Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.BAPTISTAFTLN 2213Sir, pardon me in what I have to say.FTLN 221440Your plainness and your shortness please me well.FTLN 2215Right true it is your son Lucentio hereFTLN 2216Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,FTLN 2217Or both dissemble deeply their affections.FTLN 2218And therefore, if you say no more than this,FTLN 221945That like a father you will deal with himFTLN 2220And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,FTLN 2221The match is made, and all is done.FTLN 2222Your son shall have my daughter with consent.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2223I thank you, sir. Where then do you know bestFTLN 222450We be affied and such assurance ta’enFTLN 2225As shall with either part’s agreement stand?BAPTISTAFTLN 2226Not in my house, Lucentio, for you knowFTLN 2227Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants.FTLN 2228Besides, old Gremio is heark’ning still,FTLN 222955And happily we might be interrupted.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2230Then at my lodging, an it like you.FTLN 2231There doth my father lie, and there this nightFTLN 2232We’ll pass the business privately and well.FTLN 2233Send for your daughter by your servant here.He indicates Lucentio, and winks at him.

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FTLN 223460My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.FTLN 2235The worst is this: that at so slender warningFTLN 2236You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.BAPTISTAFTLN 2237It likes me well.—Cambio, hie you home,FTLN 2238And bid Bianca make her ready straight.FTLN 223965And, if you will, tell what hath happenèd:FTLN 2240Lucentio’s father is arrived in Padua,FTLN 2241And how she’s like to be Lucentio’s wife.Lucentio exits.BIONDELLOFTLN 2242I pray the gods she may, with all my heart.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2243Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.—FTLN 224470Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?FTLN 2245Welcome! One mess is like to be your cheer.FTLN 2246Come, sir, we will better it in Pisa.BAPTISTAFTLN 2247I follow you.All but Biondello exit.

LUCENTIOFTLN 2262And then?BIONDELLOFTLN 2263The old priest at Saint Luke’s Church is atFTLN 226490your command at all hours.LUCENTIOFTLN 2265And what of all this?BIONDELLOFTLN 2266I cannot tell, except they are busiedFTLN 2267about a counterfeit assurance. Take you assuranceFTLN 2268of her cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum. To th’FTLN 226995church take the priest, clerk, and some sufficientFTLN 2270honest witnesses.FTLN 2271If this be not that you look for, I have no more toFTLN 2272say,FTLN 2273But bid Bianca farewell forever and a day.LUCENTIOFTLN 2274100Hear’st thou, Biondello?BIONDELLOFTLN 2275I cannot tarry. I knew a wench married inFTLN 2276an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsleyFTLN 2277to stuff a rabbit, and so may you, sir. And so adieu,FTLN 2278sir. My master hath appointed me to go to SaintFTLN 2279105Luke’s to bid the priest be ready to come againstFTLN 2280you come with your appendix.He exits.LUCENTIOFTLN 2281I may, and will, if she be so contented.FTLN 2282She will be pleased. Then wherefore should IFTLN 2283doubt?FTLN 2284110Hap what hap may, I’ll roundly go about her.FTLN 2285It shall go hard if “Cambio” go without her.He exits.

Scene5

Enter Petruchio, Katherine, Hortensio, and Servants.

PETRUCHIOFTLN 2286Come on, i’ God’s name, once more toward ourFTLN 2287father’s.FTLN 2288Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!KATHERINEFTLN 2289The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 22905I say it is the moon that shines so bright.KATHERINEFTLN 2291I know it is the sun that shines so bright.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2292Now, by my mother’s son, and that’s myself,FTLN 2293It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,FTLN 2294Or e’er I journey to your father’s house.FTLN 229510To Servants.Go on, and fetch our horses backFTLN 2296again.—FTLN 2297Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed!HORTENSIO, to KatherineFTLN 2298Say as he says, or we shall never go.KATHERINEFTLN 2299Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,FTLN 230015And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.FTLN 2301And if you please to call it a rush candle,FTLN 2302Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2303I say it is the moon.KATHERINEFTLN 2304I know it is the moon.PETRUCHIOFTLN 230520Nay, then you lie. It is the blessèd sun.KATHERINEFTLN 2306Then God be blest, it is the blessèd sun.FTLN 2307But sun it is not, when you say it is not,FTLN 2308And the moon changes even as your mind.FTLN 2309What you will have it named, even that it is,FTLN 231025And so it shall be so for Katherine.HORTENSIOFTLN 2311Petruchio, go thy ways, the field is won.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2312Well, forward, forward. Thus the bowl should run,FTLN 2313And not unluckily against the bias.FTLN 2314But soft! Company is coming here.

Enter Vincentio.

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FTLN 231530To Vincentio.Good morrow, gentle mistress, whereFTLN 2316away?—FTLN 2317Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly, too,FTLN 2318Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?FTLN 2319Such war of white and red within her cheeks!FTLN 232035What stars do spangle heaven with such beautyFTLN 2321As those two eyes become that heavenly face?—FTLN 2322Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.—FTLN 2323Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty’s sake.HORTENSIO, asideFTLN 2324He will make the man mad, to make the woman ofFTLN 232540him.KATHERINEFTLN 2326Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,FTLN 2327Whither away, or where is thy abode?FTLN 2328Happy the parents of so fair a child!FTLN 2329Happier the man whom favorable starsFTLN 233045Allots thee for his lovely bedfellow.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2331Why, how now, Kate? I hope thou art not mad!FTLN 2332This is a man—old, wrinkled, faded, withered—FTLN 2333And not a maiden, as thou sayst he is.KATHERINEFTLN 2334Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyesFTLN 233550That have been so bedazzled with the sunFTLN 2336That everything I look on seemeth green.FTLN 2337Now I perceive thou art a reverend father.FTLN 2338Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2339Do, good old grandsire, and withal make knownFTLN 234055Which way thou travelest. If along with us,FTLN 2341We shall be joyful of thy company.VINCENTIOFTLN 2342Fair sir, and you, my merry mistress,FTLN 2343That with your strange encounter much amazed me,FTLN 2344My name is called Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,

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FTLN 234560And bound I am to Padua, there to visitFTLN 2346A son of mine which long I have not seen.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2347What is his name?VINCENTIOFTLN 2348Lucentio, gentle sir.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2349Happily met, the happier for thy son.FTLN 235065And now by law as well as reverend age,FTLN 2351I may entitle thee my loving father.FTLN 2352The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,FTLN 2353Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,FTLN 2354Nor be not grieved. She is of good esteem,FTLN 235570Her dowry wealthy, and of worthy birth;FTLN 2356Beside, so qualified as may beseemFTLN 2357The spouse of any noble gentleman.FTLN 2358Let me embrace with old Vincentio,FTLN 2359And wander we to see thy honest son,FTLN 236075Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.VINCENTIOFTLN 2361But is this true, or is it else your pleasure,FTLN 2362Like pleasant travelers, to break a jestFTLN 2363Upon the company you overtake?HORTENSIOFTLN 2364I do assure thee, father, so it is.PETRUCHIOFTLN 236580Come, go along and see the truth hereof,FTLN 2366For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.All but Hortensio exit.HORTENSIOFTLN 2367Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart!FTLN 2368Have to my widow, and if she be froward,FTLN 2369Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward.He exits.

ACT5

Scene1

Enter Biondello, Lucentio as himself, and Bianca.Gremio is out before and stands to the side.

BIONDELLOFTLN 2370Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest isFTLN 2371ready.LUCENTIOFTLN 2372I fly, Biondello. But they may chance toFTLN 2373need thee at home. Therefore leave us.Lucentio exits with Bianca.BIONDELLOFTLN 23745Nay, faith, I’ll see the church a’ your back,FTLN 2375and then come back to my master’s as soon as IFTLN 2376can.He exits.GREMIOFTLN 2377I marvel Cambio comes not all this while.

Enter Petruchio, Katherine, Vincentio, Grumio, withAttendants.

PETRUCHIOFTLN 2378Sir, here’s the door. This is Lucentio’s house.FTLN 237910My father’s bears more toward the marketplace.FTLN 2380Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.VINCENTIOFTLN 2381You shall not choose but drink before you go.FTLN 2382I think I shall command your welcome here,FTLN 2383And by all likelihood some cheer is toward.He knocks.

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GREMIO, coming forwardFTLN 238415They’re busy within. You were best knock louder.Merchant looks out of the window.MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 2385What’s he that knocks asFTLN 2386he would beat down the gate?VINCENTIOFTLN 2387Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 2388He’s within, sir, but not toFTLN 238920be spoken withal.VINCENTIOFTLN 2390What if a man bring him a hundred poundFTLN 2391or two to make merry withal?MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 2392Keep your hundredFTLN 2393pounds to yourself. He shall need none so long as IFTLN 239425live.PETRUCHIO, to VincentioFTLN 2395Nay, I told you your son wasFTLN 2396well beloved in Padua.—Do you hear, sir? To leaveFTLN 2397frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell SigniorFTLN 2398Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and isFTLN 239930here at the door to speak with him.MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 2400Thou liest. His father isFTLN 2401come from Padua and here looking out at theFTLN 2402window.VINCENTIOFTLN 2403Art thou his father?MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 240435Ay, sir, so his mother says,FTLN 2405if I may believe her.PETRUCHIO, to VincentioFTLN 2406Why, how now, gentleman!FTLN 2407Why, this is flat knavery, to take upon you anotherFTLN 2408man’s name.MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 240940Lay hands on the villain. IFTLN 2410believe he means to cosen somebody in this cityFTLN 2411under my countenance.

Enter Biondello.

BIONDELLO, asideFTLN 2412I have seen them in the churchFTLN 2413together. God send ’em good shipping! But who isFTLN 241445here? Mine old master Vincentio! Now we areFTLN 2415undone and brought to nothing.

Enter Merchant with Servants, and Baptista andTranio disguised as Lucentio.

TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2433Sir, what are you that offer toFTLN 243465beat my servant?VINCENTIOFTLN 2435What am I, sir? Nay, what are you, sir! OFTLN 2436immortal gods! O fine villain! A silken doublet, aFTLN 2437velvet hose, a scarlet cloak, and a copatain hat! O, IFTLN 2438am undone, I am undone! While I play the goodFTLN 243970husband at home, my son and my servant spend allFTLN 2440at the university.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2441How now, what’s the matter?BAPTISTAFTLN 2442What, is the man lunatic?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2443Sir, you seem a sober ancientFTLN 244475gentleman by your habit, but your words show youFTLN 2445a madman. Why, sir, what ’cerns it you if I wearFTLN 2446pearl and gold? I thank my good father, I am ableFTLN 2447to maintain it.

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VINCENTIOFTLN 2448Thy father! O villain, he is a sailmaker inFTLN 244980Bergamo.BAPTISTAFTLN 2450You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir! Pray, whatFTLN 2451do you think is his name?VINCENTIOFTLN 2452His name? As if I knew not his name! I haveFTLN 2453brought him up ever since he was three years old,FTLN 245485and his name is Tranio.MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 2455Away, away, mad ass! HisFTLN 2456name is Lucentio and he is mine only son, and heirFTLN 2457to the lands of me, Signior Vincentio.VINCENTIOFTLN 2458Lucentio? O, he hath murdered his master!FTLN 245990Lay hold on him, I charge you in the Duke’s name.FTLN 2460O, my son, my son! Tell me, thou villain, where isFTLN 2461my son Lucentio?TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2462Call forth an officer.

Enter an Officer.

FTLN 2463Carry this mad knave to the jail.—Father Baptista, IFTLN 246495charge you see that he be forthcoming.VINCENTIOFTLN 2465Carry me to the jail?GREMIOFTLN 2466Stay, officer. He shall not go to prison.BAPTISTAFTLN 2467Talk not, Signior Gremio. I say he shall go toFTLN 2468prison.GREMIOFTLN 2469100Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be cony-catchedFTLN 2470in this business. I dare swear this is theFTLN 2471right Vincentio.MERCHANT, as VincentioFTLN 2472Swear, if thou dar’st.GREMIOFTLN 2473Nay, I dare not swear it.TRANIO, as LucentioFTLN 2474105Then thou wert best say that IFTLN 2475am not Lucentio.GREMIOFTLN 2476Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.BAPTISTAFTLN 2477Away with the dotard, to the jail with him.VINCENTIOFTLN 2478Thus strangers may be haled and abused.—FTLN 2479110O monstrous villain!

Enter Biondello, Lucentio and Bianca.

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BIONDELLOFTLN 2480O, we are spoiled, and yonder he is! DenyFTLN 2481him, forswear him, or else we are all undone.Biondello, Tranio, and Merchantexit as fast as may be.LUCENTIOFTLN 2482Pardon, sweet father.Lucentio and Bianca kneel.VINCENTIOFTLN 2483Lives my sweet son?BIANCAFTLN 2484115Pardon, dear father.BAPTISTAFTLN 2485How hast thou offended?FTLN 2486Where is Lucentio?LUCENTIOFTLN 2487Here’s Lucentio,FTLN 2488Right son to the right Vincentio,FTLN 2489120That have by marriage made thy daughter mineFTLN 2490While counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne.GREMIOFTLN 2491Here’s packing, with a witness, to deceive us all!VINCENTIOFTLN 2492Where is that damnèd villain, Tranio,FTLN 2493That faced and braved me in this matter so?BAPTISTAFTLN 2494125Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?BIANCAFTLN 2495Cambio is changed into Lucentio.LUCENTIOFTLN 2496Love wrought these miracles. Bianca’s loveFTLN 2497Made me exchange my state with Tranio,FTLN 2498While he did bear my countenance in the town,FTLN 2499130And happily I have arrivèd at the lastFTLN 2500Unto the wishèd haven of my bliss.FTLN 2501What Tranio did, myself enforced him to.FTLN 2502Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.VINCENTIOFTLN 2503I’ll slit the villain’s nose that would haveFTLN 2504135sent me to the jail!BAPTISTAFTLN 2505But do you hear, sir, have you married myFTLN 2506daughter without asking my goodwill?

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VINCENTIOFTLN 2507Fear not, Baptista, we will content you. GoFTLN 2508to! But I will in to be revenged for this villainy.He exits.BAPTISTAFTLN 2509140And I to sound the depth of this knavery.He exits.LUCENTIOFTLN 2510Look not pale, Bianca. Thy father will notFTLN 2511frown.They exit.GREMIOFTLN 2512My cake is dough, but I’ll in among the rest,FTLN 2513Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.He exits.KATHERINEFTLN 2514145Husband, let’s follow to see the end ofFTLN 2515this ado.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2516First kiss me, Kate, and we will.KATHERINEFTLN 2517What, in the midst of the street?PETRUCHIOFTLN 2518What, art thou ashamed of me?KATHERINEFTLN 2519150No, sir, God forbid, but ashamed to kiss.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2520Why, then, let’s home again.To Grumio. Come,FTLN 2521sirrah, let’s away.KATHERINEFTLN 2522Nay, I will give thee a kiss.She kisses him.FTLN 2523Now pray thee, love, stay.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2524155Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate.FTLN 2525Better once than never, for never too late.They exit.

Scene2

Enter Baptista, Vincentio, Gremio, the Merchant,Lucentio, and Bianca; Hortensio and the Widow,Petruchio and Katherine; Tranio, Biondello, andGrumio, with Servingmen bringing in a banquet.

LUCENTIOFTLN 2526At last, though long, our jarring notes agree,

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FTLN 2527And time it is when raging war is doneFTLN 2528To smile at ’scapes and perils overblown.FTLN 2529My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,FTLN 25305While I with selfsame kindness welcome thine.FTLN 2531Brother Petruchio, sister Katherina,FTLN 2532And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,FTLN 2533Feast with the best, and welcome to my house.FTLN 2534My banquet is to close our stomachs upFTLN 253510After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down,FTLN 2536For now we sit to chat as well as eat.They sit.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2537Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!BAPTISTAFTLN 2538Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2539Padua affords nothing but what is kind.HORTENSIOFTLN 254015For both our sakes I would that word were true.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2541Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow!WIDOWFTLN 2542Then never trust me if I be afeard.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2543You are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense:FTLN 2544I mean Hortensio is afeard of you.WIDOWFTLN 254520He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2546Roundly replied.KATHERINEFTLN 2547Mistress, how mean you that?WIDOWFTLN 2548Thus I conceive by him.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2549Conceives by me? How likes Hortensio that?HORTENSIOFTLN 255025My widow says, thus she conceives her tale.

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 2551Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good widow.KATHERINEFTLN 2552“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round”—FTLN 2553I pray you tell me what you meant by that.WIDOWFTLN 2554Your husband being troubled with a shrewFTLN 255530Measures my husband’s sorrow by his woe.FTLN 2556And now you know my meaning.KATHERINEFTLN 2557A very mean meaning.WIDOWFTLN 2558Right, I mean you.KATHERINEFTLN 2559And I am mean indeed, respecting you.PETRUCHIOFTLN 256035To her, Kate!HORTENSIOFTLN 2561To her, widow!PETRUCHIOFTLN 2562A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down.HORTENSIOFTLN 2563That’s my office.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2564Spoke like an officer! Ha’ to thee, lad.He drinks to Hortensio.BAPTISTAFTLN 256540How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?GREMIOFTLN 2566Believe me, sir, they butt together well.BIANCAFTLN 2567Head and butt! An hasty-witted bodyFTLN 2568Would say your head and butt were head and horn.VINCENTIOFTLN 2569Ay, mistress bride, hath that awakened you?BIANCAFTLN 257045Ay, but not frighted me. Therefore I’ll sleep again.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2571Nay, that you shall not. Since you have begun,FTLN 2572Have at you for a bitter jest or two.

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BIANCAFTLN 2573Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush,FTLN 2574And then pursue me as you draw your bow.—FTLN 257550You are welcome all.Bianca, Katherine, and the Widow exit.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2576She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio,FTLN 2577This bird you aimed at, though you hit her not.—FTLN 2578Therefore a health to all that shot and missed.TRANIOFTLN 2579O, sir, Lucentio slipped me like his greyhound,FTLN 258055Which runs himself and catches for his master.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2581A good swift simile, but something currish.TRANIOFTLN 2582’Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself.FTLN 2583’Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.BAPTISTAFTLN 2584O, O, Petruchio! Tranio hits you now.LUCENTIOFTLN 258560I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.HORTENSIOFTLN 2586Confess, confess! Hath he not hit you here?PETRUCHIOFTLN 2587He has a little galled me, I confess.FTLN 2588And as the jest did glance away from me,FTLN 2589’Tis ten to one it maimed you two outright.BAPTISTAFTLN 259065Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,FTLN 2591I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2592Well, I say no. And therefore, for assurance,FTLN 2593Let’s each one send unto his wife,FTLN 2594And he whose wife is most obedientFTLN 259570To come at first when he doth send for herFTLN 2596Shall win the wager which we will propose.

HORTENSIOFTLN 2624I am afraid, sir,FTLN 2625100Do what you can, yours will not be entreated.

Enter Biondello.

FTLN 2626Now, where’s my wife?BIONDELLOFTLN 2627She says you have some goodly jest in hand.FTLN 2628She will not come. She bids you come to her.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2629Worse and worse. She will not come!FTLN 2630105O vile, intolerable, not to be endured!—FTLN 2631Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress,FTLN 2632Say I command her come to me.Grumio exits.HORTENSIOFTLN 2633I know her answer.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2634What?HORTENSIOFTLN 2635110She will not.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2636The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.

Enter Katherine.

BAPTISTAFTLN 2637Now by my holidam, here comes Katherina!KATHERINEFTLN 2638What is your will, sir, that you send for me?PETRUCHIOFTLN 2639Where is your sister, and Hortensio’s wife?KATHERINEFTLN 2640115They sit conferring by the parlor fire.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2641Go fetch them hither. If they deny to come,FTLN 2642Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands.FTLN 2643Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.Katherine exits.LUCENTIOFTLN 2644Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.HORTENSIOFTLN 2645120And so it is. I wonder what it bodes.

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PETRUCHIOFTLN 2646Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,FTLN 2647An awful rule, and right supremacy,FTLN 2648And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy.BAPTISTAFTLN 2649Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio!FTLN 2650125The wager thou hast won, and I will addFTLN 2651Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns,FTLN 2652Another dowry to another daughter,FTLN 2653For she is changed as she had never been.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2654Nay, I will win my wager better yet,FTLN 2655130And show more sign of her obedience,FTLN 2656Her new-built virtue and obedience.

Enter Katherine, Bianca, and Widow.

FTLN 2657See where she comes, and brings your frowardFTLN 2658wivesFTLN 2659As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.—FTLN 2660135Katherine, that cap of yours becomes you not.FTLN 2661Off with that bauble, throw it underfoot.She obeys.WIDOWFTLN 2662Lord, let me never have a cause to sighFTLN 2663Till I be brought to such a silly pass.BIANCAFTLN 2664Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?LUCENTIOFTLN 2665140I would your duty were as foolish too.FTLN 2666The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,FTLN 2667Hath cost me a hundred crowns since suppertime.BIANCAFTLN 2668The more fool you for laying on my duty.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2669Katherine, I charge thee tell these headstrongFTLN 2670145womenFTLN 2671What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.

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WIDOWFTLN 2672Come, come, you’re mocking. We will have noFTLN 2673telling.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2674Come on, I say, and first begin with her.WIDOWFTLN 2675150She shall not.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2676I say she shall.—And first begin with her.KATHERINEFTLN 2677Fie, fie! Unknit that threat’ning unkind brow,FTLN 2678And dart not scornful glances from those eyesFTLN 2679To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.FTLN 2680155It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,FTLN 2681Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,FTLN 2682And in no sense is meet or amiable.FTLN 2683A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,FTLN 2684Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,FTLN 2685160And while it is so, none so dry or thirstyFTLN 2686Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.FTLN 2687Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,FTLN 2688Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,FTLN 2689And for thy maintenance commits his bodyFTLN 2690165To painful labor both by sea and land,FTLN 2691To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,FTLN 2692Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe,FTLN 2693And craves no other tribute at thy handsFTLN 2694But love, fair looks, and true obedience—FTLN 2695170Too little payment for so great a debt.FTLN 2696Such duty as the subject owes the prince,FTLN 2697Even such a woman oweth to her husband;FTLN 2698And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,FTLN 2699And not obedient to his honest will,FTLN 2700175What is she but a foul contending rebelFTLN 2701And graceless traitor to her loving lord?FTLN 2702I am ashamed that women are so simpleFTLN 2703To offer war where they should kneel for peace,

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FTLN 2704Or seek for rule, supremacy, and swayFTLN 2705180When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.FTLN 2706Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,FTLN 2707Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,FTLN 2708But that our soft conditions and our heartsFTLN 2709Should well agree with our external parts?FTLN 2710185Come, come, you froward and unable worms!FTLN 2711My mind hath been as big as one of yours,FTLN 2712My heart as great, my reason haply more,FTLN 2713To bandy word for word and frown for frown;FTLN 2714But now I see our lances are but straws,FTLN 2715190Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,FTLN 2716That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.FTLN 2717Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,FTLN 2718And place your hands below your husband’s foot;FTLN 2719In token of which duty, if he please,FTLN 2720195My hand is ready, may it do him ease.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2721Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.They kiss.LUCENTIOFTLN 2722Well, go thy ways, old lad, for thou shalt ha ’t.VINCENTIOFTLN 2723’Tis a good hearing when children are toward.LUCENTIOFTLN 2724But a harsh hearing when women are froward.PETRUCHIOFTLN 2725200Come, Kate, we’ll to bed.FTLN 2726We three are married, but you two are sped.FTLN 2727To Lucentio.’Twas I won the wager, though youFTLN 2728hit the white,FTLN 2729And being a winner, God give you good night.Petruchio and Katherine exit.HORTENSIOFTLN 2730205Now, go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrow.LUCENTIOFTLN 2731’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.They exit.